Displaced Memories - Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine

The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands. Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939 Polish ólkiew) and Polish Krzyz (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to share a common fate of many European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape. As a result of war, and post-war ethnic cleansing and displacement, they lost almost all of their pre-war inhabitants and were repopulated by new people. Based on more than 150 oral history interviews, the book describes the process of reconstruction of social microcosm, involving the reader in a journey through the lives of real people entangled in the dramatic historical events of the 20th century.

List of contents

Memories of Resettlement - Memories of Absent Others - The Post-War Culture of Remembrance - Fall of Communism - Autobiographical Memory and its Transmission - Ethnic Violence - Social Integration - Local Identity - Material Heritage - Ethnic Cleansing - Holocaust - UPA and Soviets in Western Ukraine - Symbolic Space

About the author

Anna Wylegäa is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Sociologist by training, she works at the intersection of sociology of culture, history and anthropology, with a special focus on memory in Poland and Ukraine.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Wylega¿a, Anna Wylegala
• Assisted by: Anna Wolff-Poweska (Editor), Simon Lewis (Translation)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783631678718
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67871-8
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 213 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 587 g
• Series: Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics; Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics; Studies in History, Memory and Politics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries