U źródeł podziału postkomunistycznego. Dyskurs programowy Porozumienia Centrum w wyborach parlamentarnych 1991 r.
At the roots of the post-communist division. The programmatic discourse of the Centre Agreement in the 1991 parliamentary elections

Summary/Abstract: The negotiated rejection of the authoritarian system and the transition to democracy involves not only a change in the institutional structure of the former regime, or its personnel composition, but entails taking a stand on its legitimizing formula, traditions and symbols. Disputes over the nature, scope and pace of transformation during the transition period become an important stake in political divisions, reinforcing the persistence of political identities formed on the basis of attitudes toward the ancien regime. The case of the Polish party system provides an excellent exemplification of the importance of political divisions over the past regime and how to settle accounts with it. They influenced the semantic scope of the left-right division, as well as the structure of inter-party competition. The task of this text is to reconstruct the discursive mechanisms of division-building by means of references to communism, as well as the way of defining the situation and related proposed tools for repairing the status quo. The sample contains programmatic documents adopted by Centre Agreement during the party’s First Congress in March 1991, as well as the programmatic documents of the coalition actor, the Centre Civic Agreement, distributed during the 1991 parliamentary election campaign.

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