The war that never ends : The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk /

The story of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk epitomizes one of the most important and dramatic clashes in the European culture of memory and public history in last decades. The museum became the arch-enemy for the nationalist right-wing as "cosmopolitan", "pseudo-universa...

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Main Author: Machcewicz, Paweł (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]
©2019
Series:Public History in International Perspective ; 1
Subjects:
HISTORY / Study & Teaching.
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2. svetová vojna
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ISBN:9783110659092
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Paweł Is a Dead Man
  • It All Started with an Article ...
  • Museum, but What Museum?
  • "Disintegration of the Polish Nation"
  • History Museums: Between Collective Imagination and Politics
  • The First Months at the Office of the Prime Minister
  • Assembling the Gdańsk Team
  • Architecture, Archeology, and Construction
  • Building the Collection and Planning the Exhibitions
  • The Academic Advisory Committee, or a Multitude of Perspectives
  • From the Concept to the Exhibitions and Everything in Between
  • Before the Storm
  • "The Polish Point of View"
  • Minister Gliński Comes at Night
  • The Race Against Time
  • Parliamentary Committee on Culture: Hunting for "Encyclopedists"
  • Reviewers Unmasked
  • Stalingrad Instead of Blitzkrieg
  • The Finale
  • Not the End of the Story
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Photos

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