The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity [electronic resource] / by Tomasz Kamusella.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319600369
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/2433
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2017.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XXIX, 133 p. 5 illus. in color. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
From the First to the Third Republic -- Remembering and Forgetting -- ‘The Republic of Nobles’ -- The Polish or Noble Uprisings? -- The Second Republic: A New Poland-Lithuania or a Nation-State? -- Conclusion: A Third Republic?.
Özet, vb.
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 Firstand 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.
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