Demokratyzacja pamięci wobec przewartościowań w pamięci Polaków po 1989 r.
Democratisation of remembrance in face of re-evaluations in the polish collective memory after 1989

Summary/Abstract: The text describes crucial changes in the ways the Polish people remember their past after 1989 in reference to cultural processes concerning gradual transformation from the authoritarian to democratic ways of remembering the past. Various ways of understanding the concept of democratic remembrance were discussed in the article. A large part of the article was also devoted to the characteristics of the above mentioned changes in remembering the past and to the issue of their determinants. The basic question the author of the text was concerned with was: to what extent the changes occurring after 1989 resulted from political factors and to what extent they were the result of more profound changes in contemporary culture?

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