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Title Reassessing communism : concepts, culture, and society in Poland, 1944-1989 / edited by Katarzyna Chmielewska, Agnieszka Mrozik and Grzegorz Wołowiec
Published Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 431 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction Communism Studies in Central and Eastern Europe: A New Approach -- Part One. Critiques of the Dominant Narrative -- CHAPTER ONE The Red and the Brown: On the Nationalist Legitimation of Communism in Poland Once Again -- CHAPTER TWO Communist (Auto)biographies: Teresa Torańska's Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets and the Contemporary Paradigms of Understanding the Past -- Part Two. New Analyses of Communism -- CHAPTER THREE Legitimation of Communism: To Build and to Demolish -- CHAPTER FOUR Eroticism and Power -- CHAPTER FIVE "'Cause a Girl Is People": Projects and Policies of Women's Emancipation in Postwar Poland -- CHAPTER SIX An Adventure in the Steelworks and in Mariensztat: Family and Emancipation of Women in 1950s Polish Cinema -- CHAPTER SEVEN The "Adolescent Sphinx": (Post-)Thaw Novels for Girls -- CHAPTER EIGHT "Here I Stand, I Cannot Do Otherwise": Around An Open Letter to the Party and the Notion of Revisionism in Discourse About the Political Opposition in 1960s Poland -- CHAPTER NINE Socialist Education Ideals and Models of Patriotism: Some of the Problems of Polish Pedagogics and the Education Policy of the People's Republic of Poland in the 1970s -- Part Three. New Analyses of Anti-Communism -- CHAPTER TEN The Waning of Communism in the People's Republic of Poland: The Case of Discourse on Intelligentsia -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Thought of Stanisław Brzozowski in Polish Academic Writing and Journalism in the Years 1945-1974: Currents, Parallels, Polemics -- CHAPTER TWELVE Around Jerzy Andrzejewski's Miazga, Kazimierz Brandys' Nierzeczywisto√ć, and Polish Leftist Thought of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Scheming as a Business: "Communism" in the Language of the 1980s Opposition; The Example of The Little Conspirator -- List of contributors -- Index
Summary "The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept and examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project doomed to failure. While wholly exempt from nostalgia, these essays show that beyond oppression and bad governance, communism was also a regime in which people pursued a variety of goals and how they sincerely attempted to build a better world for themselves. The book is interdisciplinary and applies the tools of social history, intellectual history, political philosophy, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies to provide a nuanced view of the communist regimes in East-Central Europe"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Communism, Film, Intellectuals, Nationalism, Poland, Political studies, Social structure, Women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2021)
Subject Communism -- Poland
Communism -- Social aspects -- Poland -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
Communism
Communism -- Social aspects
Intellectual life
Politics and government
SUBJECT Poland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Poland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject Poland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Chmielewska, Katarzyna, editor
Mrozik, Agnieszka, editor
Wołowiec, Grzegorz, editor
LC no. 2021058715
ISBN 9633863791
9789633863794