Europe, Nationalism, Communism

The Author: José M. Faraldo, historian, studied in Madrid, Moscow, Frankfurt/Oder and Poznań, and has been doing research on communism, nationalism, European unity, and visual and popular culture in former Communist countries. From 1997 to 2002, the author worked at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. At present he is a research fellow at the Center of Research on Contemporary History, (ZZF), Potsdam (Germany).

• Contents: Introducing Polish Identities – Medieval Socialist Artifacts. Architecture and Discourses of National Identity in Provincial Poland (1945-1960) – Materials of Memory. Mass Memoirs of the Polish Western Territories – Gloomy Landscapes. Everyday Strategies of Identity in 1960’s Poland. A Case Study – Teutonic Knights and Polish Identity. National Narratives and the Socialist Public Sphere – Nation as a dream. The story of Franciszek K. – Defending the Nation in a New Fatherland. Polish Émigrés in Franco’s Spain (1939-1969) – Communist Conceptions of «Europe» and the Beginning of the Cold War (1944-1948).