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- Title
HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE SOCIAL FRAMES OF CONTEMPORARY POLISH HISTORIOGRAPHY.
- Authors
Wawrzyniak, Joanna
- Abstract
This article focuses upon how historical research in the 2000s is being impacted by Poland's "societal memory" of the Polish Peoples' Republic (1945-1989). Contemporary sociologists have found that, while few Poles display any sympathy for the political symbols of that bygone era, a significant number still look back with nostalgia on that period. The author presents arguments for the need to conduct historical study (political and social history) within the framework of sociological research on collective memory. She also argues for the reconstruction/revision of the dominant historiography of Modern History (one which would take into consideration biographical questions and one that would better grasp the relationships of historical methods with generational experiences).
- Subjects
POLAND; POLISH history -- 20th century; NATIONALISM &; collective memory; HISTORY &; sociology; HISTORICAL research; COLLECTIVE memory; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Acta Poloniae Historica, 2011, Issue 103, p127
- ISSN
0001-6829
- Publication type
Article