1st Edition

The Politics of Memory in Poland and Ukraine From Reconciliation to De-Conciliation

Edited By Tomasz Stryjek, Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin Copyright 2022
282 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing together the work of sociologists, historians, and political scientists, this book explores the increasing importance of the politics of memory in central and eastern European states since the end of communism, with a particular focus on relations between Ukraine and Poland. Through studies of the representation of the past and the creation of memory in education, mass media, and on a... Read more

Introduction: how historical cultures change and how we can study this

Tomasz Stryjek and Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin

Part I: Past roots and contemporary manifestations of differences in the historical cultures of Poland and Ukraine

1. Polish-Ukrainian historical controversies: an overview

Andrii Portnov

2. Politics of memory in Ukrainian-Polish relations: Poland’s hyper-activeness and Ukraine’s reactiveness

Oleksandr Grytsenko

3. Towards an intellectual genealogy of the conservative turn in contemporary Poland: the case of Arcana magazine

Volodymyr Sklokin

4. Contemporary social actors of memory, vis-a-vis the 1939‒47 Polish-Ukrainian conflict: typology and interactions

Marek Wojnar

Part II: State historical education: goals, values, content, performers, and mechanisms

5. What history? What homeland? The nationalization of history in the school education before the breakthroughs in 2014–15 and after

Marta Studenna-Skrukwa

6. Scholar, organizer, witness, and more: multiple roles of history teachers in contemporary Ukraine

Natalia Otrishchenko

7. Nation-building and school history lessons in Ukraine after 2014

Kateryna Pryshchepa

8. Culture of peace in development and regression: Ukrainian culture in Polish culture in the twentieth century and today

Andrzej Szpociński

9. Opponents in battle, allies in suffering: a dualistic picture of Poland and Poles in Ukrainian history textbooks

Dagmara Moskwa

Part III: Media as a creator and a transmitter of representations of the past

10. History and the media: historical discourse in the Polish media on the 100th anniversary of Poland’s independence

Marek Troszyński

11. Historical references in Ukrainian media

Lyudmyla Males and Bohdan Motuzenko

Part IV: History, collective memory, and social actors in the local communities

12. Memory capital in a local community: the Wąchock case study

Barbara Markowska

13. The Chyhyryn remembrance node

Grzegorz Demel

Afterword

Volodymyr Sklokin

Biography

Tomasz Stryjek is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Research on Eastern Europe's History and Memory at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, Poland.