15 January 2025 Dr Michał Przeperski, Polish History Museum, Warsaw Wild, Wild East: Transformation of People and Mentality in Poland, 1986-1993. Today everything is obvious: the dictatorial system collapsed, so the things are exactly as they should have been from the very beginning. But Poles in 1986 were not aware that they were living in […]
Migration Status as Ethnicity: Natives, Migrants and Refugees in Postwar Poland Poland famously became ‘ethnically homogeneous’ during and immediately after the Second World War, as its previous minority populations were either killed during the Nazi occupation, forced to emigrate, and left outside of Poland’s post-1945 frontiers. And yet, across the western half of the country, […]
The Cinema of Good Change: The Populist Politics of History and Memory on Polish Movie Screens, 2015-2023 This paper examines politics of history and memory in Polish cinema during the rule of the Law and Justice party from 2015 to 2023. First, it explores feature films that glorified the mythologised community of the ‘Accursed Soldiers’ […]
