Między Aleją Świerczewskiego a Mostem Grota. Druga wojna światowa w polityce pamięci historycznej PRL na przykładzie warszawskiego nazewnictwa miejskiego
Between Świerczewskiego Avenue and Grota Bridge. World War II in the politics of memory of the People’s Republic of Poland on the example of the urban naming in Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: City names are one of the most important tools of politics of memory – the politically conditioned shaping of public perceptions of the past. In Warsaw after 1945, the ruling communists pursued a naming programme in which they referred to figures, events and symbols associated with World War II. As a result, a canon of city names was created, which included both references to the ‘official’, communist vision of history and ‘alternative’ themes of an independence-oriented nature.

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