Eine Vergangenheit, vielfältige Erzählungen? Brüche und Kontinuitäten in der polnischen Geschichtsdeutung nach 1989 am Beispiel der Geschichtsschreibung über die Akcja Wisła

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One past, many tales? Clevages and continuities of Polish historical interpretation post 1989 using the example of the historiography of Akcja Wisła This article analyses the different interpretations of the Akcja Wisła in post-socialist Poland.

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During this operation in 1947, the Polish army fought the Ukrainian partisans and resettled the Ukrainian minority to the new northwest Polish territories. After 1989, some Polish historians started to condemn the positive interpretation of the act endorsed during socialism. They attributed blame for these violent resettlements to the socialist system and criticized the nationalism in Polish historiography that had led to the justification of the Akcja Wisła. At the end of the 1990s, other historians began to confront these statements and vindicated the action as a legitimate act of self-defense by the state. This article discusses the connections between the interpretations of the Akcja Wisła after 1989 and the current historiographical-political debate concerning communist Poland. It also seeks to highlight the continuities in Polish historiography existing before and after 1989.

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Bibliographie: Frysztacka, Clara: Eine Vergangenheit, vielfältige Erzählungen? Brüche und Kontinuitäten in der polnischen Geschichtsdeutung nach 1989 am Beispiel der Geschichtsschreibung über die Akcja Wisła, JB historie, 1-2013, S. 287-303. https://doi.org/10.3224/jbh.v7i1.18