TY - JOUR
TI - The Hypertrophy of Polish Remembrance Policy after 2015: Trends and Outcomes
AU - Stryjek, Tomasz
TI - The Hypertrophy of Polish Remembrance Policy after 2015: Trends and Outcomes
AB - 
	Polish authorities have placed so much importance on remembrance policy since the end of 2015 that it has led to the hypertrophy of the phenomenon. From the 1990s, Poland has been at the forefront of shaping the infrastructure of this form of politics in Europe. Admittedly, even before 2015, national remembrance policy referred mainly to martyrologic and heroic experiences from the period 1939-1956, but it was the victory of Law and Justice in the  elections in 2015 and the creation of a oneparty government that resulted in the repeated official declarations of the necessity to defend national “dignity”. This has been accompanied by wiping from national memory past crimes committed by Poles, particularly against Jews.

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	This article is a translated and modified version of the text that was published in the previous issue of “Zoon Politikon”. See:
	Tomasz Stryjek, Hipertrofia polityki pamięci w III RP i jej konsekwencje od roku 2015, "Zoon Politikon" (8) 2017, DOI: 10.4467/2543408XZOP.17.004.9263.
VL - 2018
IS - Special Issue 2018
PY - 2018
SN - 2082-7806
C1 - 2543-408X
SP - 43
EP - 66
DO - 10.4467/2543408XZOP.18.003.10059
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/zoon-politikon/artykul/the-hypertrophy-of-polish-remembrance-policy-after-2015-trends-and-outcomes
KW - remembrance policy
KW - politics of memory
KW - identity policy
KW - historiography
KW - Institute of National Remembrance
KW - museums
KW - public holidays and memorial days
KW - Central and Eastern Europe