Evoking Polish Memory: State, Self and the Communist Past in Transition

By Anna Witeska-Mlynarczyk

The book presents an ethnographic study of ways in which communism is remembered in contemporary Poland. It follows two groups of people engaged in memory politics in one Polish town - the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime. It shows the processes of reconstruction of their memories and subjectivities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 363164163X
• ISBN13: 9783631641637
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.3"