The un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the illusion of regained historical continuity /

The un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the illusion of regained historical continuity /

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Author / Creator:	Kamusella, Tomasz, author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017] ©2017
Description:	xxix, 133 pages : color maps ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave Pivot Palgrave pivot.
Subject:	National characteristics, Polish. Language and languages -- Political aspects. Language and languages -- Political aspects. National characteristics, Polish. Politics and government. Poland -- Politics and government -- 1989- Lithuania -- Languages -- Political aspects. Poland -- Languages -- Political aspects. Lithuania. Poland.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337659

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ISBN:	9783319600352 3319600354
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128) and index.
Summary:	This text 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 pointbreak 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.--

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