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Year 1966: Socialism and Nationalism in the Polish People’s Republic book cover

1st Edition

Year 1966 Socialism and Nationalism in the Polish People’s Republic

Edited By Katarzyna Chmielewska, Tomasz Żukowski Copyright 2025
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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Year 1966 analyzes the breakthrough moment in the culture of the Polish People’s Republic when revolutionary social and cultural changes slowed down in the mid-1960s, leading to a turn toward the idea of a nation as a field of ideological dispute between different social actors. The book explores the question of what happened in Polish culture at that time: how social ties were defined, where... Read more

Introduction
Katarzyna Chmielewska and Tomasz Żukowski

Part 1: Nationalist Legitimization

1. The Dispute between the Party and the Church in 1966
Tomasz Żukowski

2.The Polish Film Chronicle of 1966: The Millennium of the State versus the Millennium of the Baptism
Krzysztof Gajewski

Part 2: Historical Politics

3. Practical Exercises in Historical Politics: Historical Narratives of the 1960s in Poland
Katarzyna Chmielewska

4. Colors of Struggle and the Polish Road to Socialism
Grzegorz Wołowiec

5. The National Veteran Narrative in War Cinema
Aránzazu Calderón Puerta and Tomasz Żukowski

Part 3: Duration and Withdrawal of Emancipation

6. The Polish Peasant Becomes a Nobleman: The Changing Identity Imaginaries of 1960–1999 and Beyond
Aleksandra Sekuła

7. Mothers, Daughters, and Modernity in the Girls’ Novel of the 1960s
Eliza Szybowicz

8. Socialism Uncompleted: On the TV Shows Doktor Ewa (1970) and Daleko od szosy (1976)
Anna Zawadzka

9. Another Death of Universalism, or How Communist Poland Destroyed Jewish Communism
Anna Zawadzka

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
Paweł Rams

11. Leszek Kołakowski’s Political Journalism (1955–1975)
Kajetan Mojsak

Epilogue: The Trauma of March 1968
Katarzyna Chmielewska and Tomasz Żukowski

Biography

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).

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