The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity
Title | The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity PDF eBook |
Author | Tomasz Kamusella |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2017-08-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3319600362 |
This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is seen as a clear point-break that allowed the Poles and their country to regain a ‘natural historical continuity’ with the ‘Second Republic,’ as interwar Poland is commonly referred to in the current Polish national master narrative. In this pattern of thinking about the past, Poland-Lithuania (nowadays roughly coterminous with Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia’s Kaliningrad Region and Ukraine) is seen as the ‘First Republic.’ However, in spite of this ‘politics of memory’ (Geschichtspolitik) – regarding its borders, institutions, law, language, or ethnic and social makeup – present-day Poland, in reality, is the direct successor to and the continuation of communist Poland. Ironically, today’s Poland is very different, in all the aforementioned aspects, from the First and Second Republics. Hence, contemporary Poland is quite un-Polish, indeed, from the perspective of Polishness defined as a historical (that is, legal, social, cultural, ethnic and political) continuity of Poland-Lithuania and interwar Poland.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Title | British Museum Catalogue of printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1894 |
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Polish Western Affairs
Title | Polish Western Affairs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Poland |
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Widener Library Shelflist: Slavic history and literatures
Title | Widener Library Shelflist: Slavic history and literatures PDF eBook |
Author | Harvard University. Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Union catalogs |
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The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Title | The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 812 |
Release | 1946 |
Genre | English literature |
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