List of Acronyms
Introduction: Communism Studies in Central and Eastern Europe: A New Approach
Katarzyna Chmielewska, Agnieszka Mrozik, and Grzegorz Wołowiec
PART I. Critiques of the Dominant Narrative
1. The Red and the Brown: On the Nationalist Legitimation of Communism in Poland Once Again
Grzegorz Wołowiec
2. Communist (Auto)biographies: Teresa Torańska’s Them: Stalin’s Polish Puppets and the Contemporary Paradigms of Understanding the Past
Anna Artwińska
PART II. New Analyses of Communism
3. Legitimation of Communism: To Build and to Demolish
Katarzyna Chmielewska
4. Eroticism and Power
Tomasz Żukowski
5. “’Cause a Girl Is People”: Projects and Policies of Women’s Emancipation in Postwar Poland
Agnieszka Mrozik
6. An Adventure in the Steelworks and in Mariensztat: Family and Emancipation of Women in 1950s Polish Cinema
Aránzazu Calderón Puerta
7. The “Adolescent Sphinx”: (Post-)Thaw Novels for Girls
Eliza Szybowicz
8. “Here I Stand, I Cannot Do Otherwise”: Around An Open Letter to the Party and the Notion of Revisionism in Discourse About the Political Opposition in 1960s Poland
Bartłomiej Starnawski
9. Socialist Education Ideals and Models of Patriotism: Some of the Problems of Polish Pedagogics and the Education Policy of the People’s Republic of Poland in the 1970s
Anna Sobieska
PART III. New Analyses of Anti-Communism
10. The Waning of Communism in the People’s Republic of Poland: The Case of Discourse on Intelligentsia
Anna Zawadzka
11. The Thought of Stanisław Brzozowski in Polish Academic Writing and Journalism in the Years 1945–1974: Currents, Parallels, Polemics
Paweł Rams
12. Around Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Miazga, Kazimierz Brandys’ Nierzeczywistość, and Polish Leftist Thought of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
Kajetan Mojsak
13. Scheming as a Business: “Communism” in the Language of the 1980s Opposition; The Example of The Little Conspirator
Krzysztof Gajewski
List of Contributors
Index