Pożądana ciężkość bytu. Nostalgia Solidarności w latach kryzysu 1980–1981 jako historia ratownicza

• Authors: Piotr Perkowski

Title variants

EN

The desirable heaviness of being. Solidarity’s nostalgia for heavy modernity in the times of crisis, 1980–81

Abstracts

EN

Late, unlike heavy, modernity until now has been devoid of any radical project for the future. It rather makes people use a rose‑tinted past to cope with future‑oriented anxieties. Solidarity’s desire for heavy modernity demonstrates that this sickness has been around for a long time. In what ways were the people of Solidarity nostalgic, and how did modernity’s global crisis reinvigorate the “desirable heaviness of being”? “The desirable heaviness of being” depicts the phenomenon of nostalgia for postwar heavy modernity within the early Solidarity movement. The theory of post‑socialist nostalgia highlights the importance of nostalgia for the future‑oriented past of heavy modernity in appraising the system during the Solidarity period. The interplay between Solidarity, late state socialism, and the crisis of heavy modernity exemplifies Eastern Europe’s interactions with globalising economies before and after 1989. The recollections of the August Strike as well as the Solidarity trade union’s programme provide examples for the longing. The links between state socialism and the global crisis of modernity shed light on current reasons for nostalgia, which may be of interest to “rescue history”.

Keywords

EN

heavy modernity; nostalgia; late state socialism; Eastern Europe; Solidarity movement

PL

ciężka nowoczesność; nostalgia; późny socjalizm; Europa Wschodnia; ruch Solidarności

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historyka Studia Metodologiczne
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 52
• Pages: 349-370

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Piotr Perkowski

• https://orcid.org/0000000230467918

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/hsm.2022.142732

Biblioteka Nauki

20312199