ETHNOGRAPHY OF MEMORY OF THE POLISH PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC. CULTURE OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN POST-WAR POLAND 1956-1989

This book is a fascinating journey through time, taking us to post-war Poland in the years 1956-1989. Discover how the culture of everyday life was shaped in the shadow of socialism, what values were promoted, and how people coped in this specific reality. It is not only a historical analysis but, above all, a story about human experiences and survival strategies.

• In-depth analysis of everyday life in the Polish People's Republic
• The perspective of the individual in the socialist system
• Discovering forgotten aspects of culture
• Personal narratives and biographical testimonies
• Studying the communicative memory of the Polish People's Republic

In the Polish People's Republic, a normative model was in force, according to which a socialist man should be a cultured man. Participation in culture was a source of prestige, and the development of personality was understood as becoming a cultured man, which became a popular element of social advancement. The intelligentsia was to raise the cultural level by introducing the less educated layers to the national culture.

The post-war decades were specific because prestige indicators such as noble descent or inherited wealth were buried, promoting the ideal of a socialist man for whom education and culture are widely available, and becoming a cultured man is a model of development and social aspiration.

The research focuses on the memory of the everyday experiences of people who consciously experienced this period. The perspective touches on experiences that relate not so much to witnesses of history as to the everyday lives of people who lived in that era. The aim is to show how the individual found their way in the Polish People's Republic, how they coped, lived, and experienced. We focus on the communicative memory of the Polish People's Republic, collected in the form of personal and biographical narratives, analogous to the narrated memory.

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