Reassessing Communism: Concepts, Culture, and Society in Poland 1944–1989

Contents\nList of Acronyms\nIntroduction Communism Studies in Central and Eastern Europe: A New Approach\nPart One. Critiques of the Dominant Narrative\nCHAPTER ONE The Red and the Brown: On the Nationalist Legitimation of Communism in Poland Once Again\nCHAPTER TWO Communist (Auto)biographies: Teresa Torańska’s Them: Stalin’s Polish Puppets and the Contemporary Paradigms of Understanding the Past\nPart Two. New Analyses of Communism\nCHAPTER THREE Legitimation of Communism: To Build and to Demolish\nCHAPTER FOUR Eroticism and Power\nCHAPTER FIVE “’Cause a Girl Is People”: Projects and Policies of Women’s Emancipation in Postwar Poland\nCHAPTER SIX An Adventure in the Steelworks and in Mariensztat: Family and Emancipation of Women in 1950s Polish Cinema\nCHAPTER SEVEN The “Adolescent Sphinx”: (Post-)Thaw Novels for Girls\nCHAPTER EIGHT “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\nCHAPTER NINE 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\nPart Three. New Analyses of Anti-Communism\nCHAPTER TEN The Waning of Communism in the People’s Republic of Poland: The Case of Discourse on Intelligentsia\nCHAPTER ELEVEN The Thought of Stanisław Brzozowski in Polish Academic Writing and Journalism in the Years 1945–1974: Currents, Parallels, Polemics\nCHAPTER TWELVE Around Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Miazga, Kazimierz Brandys’ Nierzeczywisto√ć, and Polish Leftist Thought of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s\nCHAPTER THIRTEEN Scheming as a Business: “Communism” in the Language of the 1980s Opposition; The Example of The Little Conspirator\nList of contributors\nIndex