Katarzyna Chmielewska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN). She is co-founder of the Center for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism at IBL PAN and editor of the series Communism: Ideas – Discourses – Practices.Tomasz Żukowski is Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Forgetting Polish Violence Against the Jews: The Great Whitewash (2025) and the co-author of The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942–2015: The Story of Innocence (2021) and Philo-Semitic Violence (2021).

• Introduction Part 1: Nationalist Legitimization 1. The Dispute Between the Party and the Church in 1966 2.The Polish Film Chronicle of 1966: The Millennium of the State versus the Millennium of the Baptism Part 2: Historical Politics 3. Practical Exercises in Historical Politics: Historical Narratives of the 1960s in Poland 4. Colors of Struggle and the Polish Road to Socialism 5. The National Veteran Narrative in War Cinema Part 3: Duration and Withdrawal of Emancipation 6. The Polish Peasant Becomes a Nobleman: The Changing Identity Imaginaries of 1960–1999 and Beyond 7. Mothers, Daughters, and Modernity in the Girls’ Novel of the 1960s 8. Socialism Uncompleted: On the TV Shows Doktor Ewa (1970) and Daleko od szosy (1976) 9. Another Death of Universalism, or How Communist Poland Destroyed Jewish Communism Part 4: Prehistory of the Opposition 10. From Revisionism to Dialogue: An Analysis of the Narrative Transformations of the Left-Wing Opposition in the Polish People’s Republic 11. Leszek Kołakowski’s Political Journalism (1955–1975). Epilogue: The Trauma of March 1968