Reassessing Communism. Concepts, Culture, and Society in Poland, 1944-1989

Katarzyna Chmielewska, Agnieszka Mrozik, and Grzegorz Wołowiec: Introduction: Communism Studies in Central and Eastern Europe: A New Approach

Part One: Critiques of the Dominant Narrative

1. Grzegorz Wołowiec: The Red and the Brown: On the Nationalist Legitimation of Communism in Poland Once Again

2. Anna Artwińska: 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

3. Katarzyna Chmielewska: Legitimation of Communism: To Build and to Demolish

4. Tomasz Żukowski: Eroticism and Power

5. Agnieszka Mrozik: “’Cause a Girl Is People”: Projects and Policies of Women’s Emancipation in Postwar Poland

6. Aránzazu Calderón Puerta: An Adventure in the Steelworks and in Mariensztat: Family and Emancipation of Women in 1950s Polish Cinema

7. Eliza Szybowicz: The “Adolescent Sphinx”: (Post-)Thaw Novels for Girls

8. Bartłomiej Starnawski: “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

9. Anna Sobieska: 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

10. Anna Zawadzka: The Waning of Communism in the People’s Republic of Poland: The Case of Discourse on Intelligentsia

11. Paweł Rams: The Thought of Stanisław Brzozowski in Polish Academic Writing and Journalism in the Years 1945–1974: Currents, Parallels, Polemics

12. Kajetan Mojsak: Around Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Miazga, Kazimierz Brandys’ Nierzeczywistość, and Polish Leftist Thought of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s

13. Krzysztof Gajewski: Scheming as a Business: “Communism” in the Language of the 1980s Opposition; The Example of The Little Conspirator

List of Contributors
Index