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Katyń 1940: National Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Polish-Russian Relations
Katyń 1940: National Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Polish-Russian Relations

Author(s): Jolanta Jonaszko
Subject(s): Politics, Cultural history, Diplomatic history, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Geopolitics
Published by: Centrul de Studii Memoriale și Identitare
Keywords: Cultural Trauma; Polish National Memory; Katyń; Polish-Russian Relations

Summary/Abstract: The Memory of Katyń, which became a Polish national memory of trauma, developed in opposition to the official Communist discourse in Poland. This was neither a linear nor a unitary process, but it was a process which embedded the Katyń crime in the Polish memorial culture and thus blended it with narratives of fight for independence, national identity and victimhood.

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 60-75
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English