TY - BOOK AU - Kamusella,Tomasz ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity SN - 9783319600369 AV - DK1-949.5 U1 - 947 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Russia—History KW - Europe, Eastern—History KW - Civilization—History KW - World politics KW - Europe, Central—History KW - World history KW - Russian, Soviet, and East European History KW - Cultural History KW - Political History KW - History of Germany and Central Europe KW - World History, Global and Transnational History N1 - From the First to the Third Republic -- Remembering and Forgetting -- ‘The Republic of Nobles’ -- The Polish or Noble Uprisings? -- The Second Republic: A New Poland-Lithuania or a Nation-State? -- Conclusion: A Third Republic?; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is seen as a clear point-break that allowed the Poles and their country to regain a ‘natural historical continuity’ with the ‘Second Republic,’ as interwar Poland is commonly referred to in the current Polish national master narrative. In this pattern of thinking about the past, Poland-Lithuania (nowadays roughly coterminous with Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia’s Kaliningrad Region and Ukraine) is seen as the ‘First Republic.’ However, in spite of this ‘politics of memory’ (Geschichtspolitik) – regarding its borders, institutions, law, language, or ethnic and social makeup – present-day Poland, in reality, is the direct successor to and the continuation of communist Poland. Ironically, today’s Poland is very different, in all the aforementioned aspects, from the First and Second Republics. Hence, contemporary Poland is quite un-Polish, indeed, from the perspective of Polishness defined as a historical (that is, legal, social, cultural, ethnic and political) continuity of Poland-Lithuania and interwar Poland UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60036-9 ER -