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THE UN-POLISH POLAND, 1989 AND THE ILLUSION OF REGAINED HIST IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
09 / 2017
9783319600352
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Sinopsis

This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuitiesábetween the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish PeopleâÇÖs Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is seen as a clear point-break that allowed the Poles and their country to regain a âÇÖnatural historical continuityâÇÖ with the âÇÖSecond Republic,âÇÖ 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, RussiaâÇÖs Kaliningrad Region and Ukraine) is seen as the âÇÖFirst Republic.âÇÖ However, in spite of this âÇÖpolitics of memoryâÇÖ (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, todayâÇÖs 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.

PVP
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