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The article describes two approaches to the Holocaust, identified with the names of Zygmunt Bauman and Timothy Snyder. In this dyad, Bauman stands for the culturalist, sociological approach focused on identifying the social conditions in which otherness is produced and tracing the significance of modernity and bureaucracy for the Shoah. In contrast, Snyder dismisses the notion that anti-Semitism and modern statehood played a crucial part in the Holocaust. The study also identifies contemporary adherents of the two interpretations in Poland.

This article attempts to offer a new perspective on the infamous phenomenon of socialist realism. The author describes the literature of the period, the debates that revolved around it at the time, and the Marxist literary criticism and Marxist history of literature. An examination of the existing research paradigm leads her to recognize the need for its expansion and propose an analysis of socialist realism that relies on Pierre Bourdieu's categories of distinction, symbolic capital and habitus.

This paper in the field of cultural memory studies addresses the workings of memory, or more precisely – a politics of memory whereby the image of the intelligentsia and its role in the Holocaust vanishes from the collective consciousness. The relative visibility of peasants denouncing Jews, murdering them and plundering their property is accompanied by an invisibility of the intelligentsia and its essential role in reinforcing the exclusion and antisemitic patterns of behavior before the Holocaust which facilitated direct involvement in these events, as well as an invisibility of the intelligentsia's own participation in the events of the Holocaust.

The intelligentsia and the Holocaust. Dispersing the imageThis paper in the field of cultural memory studies addresses the workings of memory, or more precisely – a politics of memory whereby the image of the intelligentsia and its role in the Holocaust vanishes from the collective consciousness. The relative visibility of peasants denouncing Jews, murdering them and plundering their property is accompanied by an invisibility of the intelligentsia and its essential role in reinforcing the exclusion and antisemitic patterns of behavior before the Holocaust which facilitated direct involvement in these events, as well as an invisibility of the intelligentsia's own participation in the events of the Holocaust. Inteligencja i Zagłada. Rozpraszanie obrazuTekst z zakresu badań nad pamięcią kulturową dotyczy pracy pamięci, a właściwie polityki pamięci, w której ramach ze społecznej świadomości znika obraz inteligencji i jej roli podczas Zagłady. Względnej widzialności chłopskiego wydawania Żydów, ich mordowania i grabienia towarzyszy niewidzialność inteligencji i jej kluczowej roli w reprodukowaniu wykluczenia i wzorów antysemickich poprzedzających Zagładę i umożliwiających bezpośrednie zaangażowanie w wydarzenia, a także jej własnego udziału w Zagładzie.

Creating trauma. Symmetries and hostile takeovers of the Jewish traumaIn this study I take a closer look at the strategies of post-memory thanks to which the Polish culture tries to produce your own trauma of the Holocaust. The "trauma of a Polish by-stander" turns out in this context to be post-trauma created in order to assimilate, take over or relativise the Jewish trauma. The posttraumatic strategies chosen by me with the Holocaust in the background obviously are not the only responses of the Polish culture to the Holocaust. The palimpsestial overwriting the trauma with other narratives, a kind of post-trauma that aims at taking over trauma, usually, however, escape the field of traumatological studies, and it is time to describe them.Создание травмы. Симметрии и вражеские захваты еврейской травмы В статье подробно рассмaтриваются стратегии, благодаря которым польская культура пытается создать собственную травму Хо­локоста. В этом контексте «травма польского зрителя» оказывается посттравмой, созданной для того, чтобы ассимилировать, перенять или релятивизировать еврейскую травму. Конечно, выбранные автором посттравматические стратегии, с Холокостом на заднем плане, являются не единственными ответами польской культуры на Холокост. Автор описывает своего рода постпамять, которая направлена на затенение травмы, как правило, выходит из области ис­следований травм.

The events of March 1968 are usually shown as a type of cataclysm, affecting the whole society, caused by a single agent — the Communist authorities — without the participation of this society. At the same time, it is a founding cataclysm, as it is the starting point of the history of the Polish opposition and the universal resistance against the authorities. The word "trauma" becomes the key word for the description of the events of March, as it is used not so much in the context of the experience of those facing repression and their relatives, but the entire society. The abundance of the trauma discourse prompts its perception as a symptom and raises questions about the hidden Real, i.e. about who suffered the trauma and what this trauma consists in. We propose an analysis of the trauma discourse that takes into consideration the image of the social field created by this discourse. We want to describe games between the individual actors of the events as well as the emerging tensions and stakes in these games. We analyze the image conveyed by the historical discourse about March 1968, established after the Turn of 1989.

"The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept and examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project doomed to failure. While wholly exempt from nostalgia, these essays show that beyond oppression and bad governance, communism was also a regime in which people pursued a variety of goals and how they sincerely attempted to build a better world for themselves. The book is interdisciplinary and applies the tools of social history, intellectual history, political philosophy, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies to provide a nuanced view of the communist regimes in East-Central Europe"--