Veterans, victims, and memory : : the politics of the Second World War in communist Poland / / Joanna Wawrzyniak ; translated by Simon Lewis.
In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to unders...
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| Superior document: | Warsaw studies in contemporary history ; volume 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Frankfurt am Main : : Peter Lang Edition,, [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Warsaw studies in contemporary history ;
volume 4. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1: Communism, Myth and Memory; Collective Memory, Memory Groups and Myths of War under Communism; Agents: Veterans, Victims and the Nation State; Structures: Organizations in the Communist System; Sources Consulted; Chapter 2: The Communist Post-war: Organizing Life and Memory; Challenges of Demobilization; Communist Legislation and the ex-Combatants and Prisoners, 1945-48: A View From Above; Memory Groups: A View from Below; Commemoration: 'I can still smell that putrid stench'
- Assistive activities and group interests'The Soil Has Been Tilled': Towards the Unification of Memory Groups; Chapter 3: The Myth of Victory over Fascism (1949-55); Setting the Stage; The Unification Congress; Fighters for peace; In the ranks of the national front; Sites of Memory and the Myth of Victory; Concentration camps; Fields of battle; The forest and the urban resistance; Behind the Scenes: Organization as Illusion; Unity and exclusion; 'We have been unable to plough this fallow field'; The withdrawal of patronage and awards; Chapter 4: The Myth of Unity (1956-59); Memory Unbound
- Changes'They gather almost every day and muck-rake in the past'; Against the monopoly of memory; ZBoWiD in the provinces: the case of Lublin region; The Myth of Unity: Formation; The 'family of combatants' and criteria for verification; 'Let's do patriotism'; Anti-German attitudes; The Second ZBoWiD Congress; Chapter 5: The Myth of Innocence (1960-69); Clientelism: 'We Have Been Able to Arrange It'; The Partisans; 'Only ZBoWiD can speak in the name of the Home Army tradition'; Partisan culture; Rival Martyrologies; Wartime martyrdom; Anti-Semitism; The innocent Poles and the ungrateful Jews
- Afterword: The Long Shadow of the Communist Politics of MemoryPolish War Memory in Comparative Context; Communist Narratives: between Persistence and Change; Bibliography; Index