Settling Accounts with the Communist Past in Poland
Settling Accounts with the Communist Past in Poland
Author(s): Paweł UkielskiSubject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: communist legacy; remembrance; lustration; decommunisation; communist crimes; policy of remembrance; post-communist Poland;
Summary/Abstract: The paper describes Polish experience with overcoming the communist past and its legacy.It deals with legal and social aspects of the lustration and decommunisation as well as attempts to punish communist perpetrators. Collective memory and remembrance, as well as changes in the symbolic sphere in the public space, are also discussed. Finally, the above-mentioned problems are placed in the international context, specifically in the Central European arena.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXV/2017
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 207-218
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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