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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800085403321

Autore

Ochman Ewa.

Titolo

Post-communist Poland : contested pasts and future identities / / Ewa Ochman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-91600-4

0-203-55083-8

1-299-48079-9

1-135-91593-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; ; 88

Classificazione

SOC008000

Disciplina

943.8

Soggetti

National characteristics, Polish

Nationalism - Poland

Post-communism - Poland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART 1; 1 Poland in transition and reckoning with the past; 2 National mythologies and the re-shaping of memorial landscape; 3 European memory and common history projects; PART 2; 4 Legislating sites of national memory; 5 Legislating the de-communisation of public space; 6 The enduring legacy of the People's Republic; PART 3; 7 Municipalities and the search for the local past; 8 Contested local past and fragmented politics of memory

9 Monuments, commemorative space and rescaling of memoryConclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland's past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on commemoration, memorials, monuments and the creation of ideologies, identities and myths--and on the de-commemorating of communism. The book outlines the detail of the new national myths which are being established, examines how different actors have different approaches, and discusses the huge



impact, both with Poland, and internationally, which these new national identities potentially have, including the revival of Poland's nationalist ambitions for a Greater Poland. "--