title: The Eastern Borderland in Polish Collective Memory
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metadata.value: Banaszkiewicz, Mikolaj
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T22:03:58Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T22:03:58Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Banaszkiewicz M. The Eastern Borderland in Polish Collective Memory. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 1, pp. 297–309.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.117
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17516
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The eastern frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is referred to in the Polish language
  as the Kresy. The geographical extent of this area changed with the shifting borders of the
  Polish-Lithuanian state and, after 1918, of Poland alone. At the time when modern Polish national
  consciousness was being shaped, it denoted the Russian territory known as the “western
  provinces” (gubernias).” Beginning with the mid-19th century, the Kresy were primarily a concept
  of the Polish political vocabulary that referred to an axiological space. The dispute over the
  area took the shape of a cultural and civilizational confrontation between two projects, those of
  imperial Russia and Poland. This article presents the Polish perception of the Kresy mostly as an
  imagined, not a real area. In the author’s view, in order to explain it one has to employ categories
  of memory studies. The conflict over the Kresy took place when Polish national consciousness
  was being formed under the influence of Romanticism. This led to the permanent inclusion of
  Kresy mythology and to the conviction about the existential nature of the conflict with Russia in
  the Polish memory. The existence of the Kresy as a historical phenomenon ceased with the end
  of the Second World War. The area, however, continues to play an important role in memory
  and imagination. The author notes the most important threads of discussions on the Kresy heritage
  in public life. Attention is also paid to the renewed interest that the discourse on the Eastern
  Borderland has enjoyed in official Polish politics of memory in recent years.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by the grant No. 19-18-00073 “National Identity in the Imperial Politics of
  Memory: History of The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian State in Historiography and
  Social Thought of the 19th–20th Centuries” of the Russian Science Foundation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politics of memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kresy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collective memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political mythology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Eastern Borderland in Polish Collective Memory
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metadata.value: Article
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