
Poland's Memory Wars
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The descriptions of PiS in Western media tend to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was simply successful in understanding its electorate, and just helped Poland to revert to its normal state. This new Normal seems quite similar to the old one: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist.
The book looks at the current struggle between one 'Poland' and another; between a Western-looking Poland and an inward-looking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, and working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition.
The question of illiberalism has gone from an 'Eastern' problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland's illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Illiberal, Aliberal, Anti-liberal?
Jo Harper
PART I. Essays on PiS
Never Mind the Boleks!
Jo Harper
What's Finished, What's Beginning?
Andrzej Rychard
Authoritarian Drive in Poland
David Ost
The Triumph of National Communism
Brian Porter-Szucs
Polish Right-wing Populism
Artur Lipinski & Agnieszka Stepinska
Crisis, What Crisis?
Nicholas Richardson
Foreign Relations in the Age of Kaczynski
Jan Mus
PART II. PiS's Politics of History
The New Romantics
Joanna Srednicka
The History Men
Jan Darasz
Poland's Culture of Commemoration
Ewa Stanczyk
Poland's Theater of Death
Dariusz Czaja
PART III. PiS's Politics of Normality
The Quest for the "Normal" Family
Urszula Chowaniec
Straight Talking
Tomasz Basiuk
An Identity Reset
Remi Adekoya
Conclusion
Jo Harper
Part IV. Interviews
History As We May Wish It To Be
Jan Gross
966 and All That
Neal Ascherson
The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
Mikolaj Kunicki
History Repeats Itself
Mateusz Kijowski
Understand the War, Understand Poland
Pawel Ukielski
Defenders of the Faith
Neal Pease
Appendices
Appendix I: Timeline
Appendix II: Glossary
The Cast
Concepts
Politics
Romantic and Post-Romantic Poets and Dramatists
List of Contributors
Index
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