Weaponizing the Past

Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland

von Kate Korycki

234 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Poland, contemporary political actors have constructed a narrative of Polish history since 1989 in which Polish and Jewish involvement with communism has created a national concept of "we." Weaponizing the Past explores the resulting implications of national belonging through a lens of collective memory. Taking a constructivist approach to electoral politics and nation making in Poland's past, this volume's dual line of inquiry articulates why and how elites politicize the past, what effect this politicization produces, and contextualizes this politicization to illustrate contemporary production of anti-Semitism.

• Reihe: Worlds of Memory
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781805390503
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.08.2023
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books