Veterans, Victims, and Memory

Joanna Wawrzyniak is Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, where she also heads the Social Memory Laboratory. She has published extensively on the relationship between history and memory in Poland, the uses of oral history, and the current state of memory studies in Central-Eastern Europe. Recently she was a visiting fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena (Germany).

• Contents: Communism, Myth and Memory – The Communist Post-war: Organizing Life and Memory – The Myth of Victory (1949–1955) – The Myth of Unity (1956–1959) – The Myth of Innocence (1960–1969) – Epilogue: The Long Shadow of the Communist Politics of Memory.

"Abschliessend bleibt festzuhalten, dass Wawrzyniak uberzeugend und souveran durch die Wandlungen der Geschichtspolitik in der Volksrepublik Polen fuhrt." (Maximilian Becker, sehepunkte 16/2016) "An incisive and well-organized case study, it is highly recommended to specialists on Poland's politics of memory and postwar central and east central Europe more generally." (Andrew Demshuk, Slavic Review Spring 2017)