When Local Memory Confronts State Historical Policy: Staging Edward Gierek’s Life in Sosnowiec

The search result changed since you submitted your search request. Documents might be displayed in a different sort order.

Since 2015 when the Law and Justice (PiS) party returned to power, ‘history policy’ has become an important part of the political agenda in Poland. Its main targets are museums and public education more broadly. The article reviews a recent temporary exhibition about former Polish Communist Party leader Edward Gierek in the small town of Sosnowiec and places it in the wider discourses on de-communization and on regional-vs-centralized historical narratives of the recent past.

Metadata
Document Type:	Article
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.25626/0088
Creator and project details
Author:	Valentin Behr GND
Editor:	Joachim von PuttkamerGND, Michal KopečekGND, Włodzimierz BorodziejGND
Publishing Institution:	Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Title details
Title (English):	When Local Memory Confronts State Historical Policy: Staging Edward Gierek’s Life in Sosnowiec
Parent Title (English):	Cultures of History Forum
Release Date:	2020/08/24
Date of Publication (online):	2020/02/14
Date of first Publication:	2018/09/03
Language:	English
Subject indexing
DDC-Classification:	9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Collections:	Cultures of History Forum (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Tag:	Gierek; PiS; Poland; exhibition; history policy; local memory; public history
GND Keyword:	Polen; Gierek, Edward; Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; Sosnowitz; Geschichtspolitik; Politischer Wandel
Manifestation description (file/s)
File Size:	3221 KB
MIME-Type:	application/pdf
Legal information
Licence / Usage Agreement (German):	Urheberrechtlich geschützt

Open Access