Musealisierung des Kommunismus in Polen und Ostmitteleuropa. Rezension einer Monografie von Anna Ziębińska-Witek

• Authors: Rafał Stobiecki

Title variants

EN

Review of Anna Ziębińska-Witek’s book "Muzealizacja komunizmu w Polsce i w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej"

Abstracts

EN

In her book Anna Ziębińska-Witek deals with a question of displaying and interpreting the experience of communism in various historical exhibitions in Central and Eastern Europe. The book enables the readers to get acquainted with analysis of historical discourses concerning contemporary history conducted neither in form of sophisticated monographies, nor in form of superficial press commentaries, but basing on such an unique media as historical exhibitions. Ziębińska-Witek stresses here the fact that museums are more often than not instruments of the politics of memory than a method of disseminating objective historical knowledge. Therefore she analyses and deconstructs various types of exhibitions: those stressing heroism, those underlining martyrdom, and, finally, those with a gadget-focused sentimental approach. Although it is hard to speak about one single interpretation of communism in historical exhibitions in Central and Eastern Europe, Ziębińska-Witek points out that in all Central and Eastern European countries the dominant role is played by large, stateowned museums.

Keywords

EN

exhibition; remembrance; Polish People’s Republic; communism

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historie. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 198-210

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Rafał Stobiecki

• https://orcid.org/0000000214581657

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/historie.2020.133260

Biblioteka Nauki

56076758