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1989 and the illusion of restored historical continuity.
The book examines historical continuities and ruptures between the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic (PRL), and contemporary Poland. As the author argues, although in the politics of memory the current Polish state is presented as a natural successor to interwar Poland as the “Second Republic” and the former Commonwealth as the “First Republic,” in reality, it embodies the succession of the PRL.
Paradoxically, from the perspective of the Polishness that characterized the former Commonwealth in legal, social, cultural, ethnic, and political terms, today’s Poland is rather non-Polish.


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