A discussion of how modern Poland was created by the application and manipulation of myths about its past, and the symbols that represented them.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface: Independence Day: A Conflicted History
- 1: Introduction: The Myths and Symbols of Independence Day
- 2: Discovering Independence Day
- 3: 1918-1926: Contesting a National Myth
- 4: 1926-1935: Formalization of a Discourse
- 5: Independence Day and the Celebration of Pilsudski's Legend, 1935-1939
- 6: Maintaining a Pilsudskiite Independence Day, 1939-1945
- 7: Independence Day as Symbol of Protest
- 8: The Party in Ideological Chaos
- 9: Since 1989: The Function of Independence Day in the 3rd Republic
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
