Museums and Memory: Building a Usable Past in Communist Poland

本论文探讨了1945年至1989年期间，共产主义者试图在波兰建立一个可用的过去，重点是博物馆-地方，国家和地区-及其展览和公众参与。它将记忆研究的透镜延伸到共产主义时期，并对波兰共产党人利用国家历史购买合法性的方式提出了根本性问题。特别是，它考察了中央强加的历史叙事与各个地方和其他文化群体的不同经历之间的关系。通过绘制历史叙事随时间的演变，它挖掘了波兰对过去的解释的更深层次的根源。

This thesis examines communist attempts to build a usable past in Poland between 1945 and 1989 by focusing on museums - local, national and regional - and their exhibitions and public engagement. It extends the lens of memory studies to the communist period and asks fundamental questions about the way Polish communists used national history to buy legitimacy. In particular, it examines the relationship between a centrally imposed historical narrative and the different experiences of various localities and other cultural groups. By charting the evolution of historical narratives over time, it excavates the deeper roots of Polish interpretations of the past.