Obchody dwudziestolecia III Rzeczypospolitej. Próby kształtowania pamięci zbiorowej polskiego społeczeństwa
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2011
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Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM
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The celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the Third Polish Republic. The attempts to shape Polish society’s collective memory
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The paper tries to sum up the celebrations to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of
the Third Republic in 1989 and to present them in the context of the ‘remembrance policy’,meaning the endeavors various circles are engaged in to shape Polish society’s collective
memory. The authors analyze the celebrations in terms of several selected aspects. The first
one concerns the academic field: conferences, seminars and resulting publications. Another
aspect refers to the official celebrations organized by state institutions. The third is about the
response and debates taking place in newspapers at that time. The review of different ways of
commemorating the anniversary results in the conclusion that they were all strongly politi-
cized and used for the purposes of the current political struggle. This was particularly clear
during the official celebrations, divided into those organized by the government and president
respectively, yet even the events organized under academic auspices were not free from politi-
cal manipulation. Therefore, the celebrations corroborated the fact that 1989 has not strongly
registered in Poles’ awareness as a generational experience that positively organizes the col-
lective memory; the celebrations did not stimulate a nationwide reflection on the achieve-
ments of the era commenced with the events of 1989. They did not make a contribution to
creating in the collective memory a ‘national consensus of pride’ at the regained statehood
reminiscent of that of the Second Republic.
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pamięć zbiorowa, społeczeństwo polskie, dwudziestolecie III RP
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Przegląd Politologiczny, 2011, nr 4, s.7-20