The Polish Historical Debate on the People’s Republic,
Journal title MONDO CONTEMPORANEO
Author/s Carla Tonini
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/3
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 95-105 File size 90 KB
DOI 10.3280/MON2014-003004
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
After the fall of the Communist regime, in 1989, Poland entered a new phase, dedicated to the establishment of a democratic system, of a market economy and of international relations based on membership of Nato and the European Union. These transformations have been accompanied by a debate on the Communist regime (1944/45-1989) which, after reaching its peak at the beginning of the XXI Century, has gradually subsided. This essay examines the issues at the centre of the debate: was Poland a sovereign state? Can its system be described as totalitarian? While these issues, in the last twenty years, have remained central to the debate, the historical approach to the 1944/1989 events has greatly changed. Previous to the reconstruction of the debate, a review of the pre 1989 Polish historiography, will explain these changes and will show the lines of continuity in the Polish historical research on Communism.
Keywords: Poland, Polish historiography, communism, Totalitarian state, Polish People’s Republic, Institute of National Remembrance (Ipn)
Carla Tonini, Il dibattito storiografico polacco sulla Repubblica popolare in "MONDO CONTEMPORANEO" 3/2014, pp 95-105, DOI: 10.3280/MON2014-003004