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The monograph is the result of research conducted between 2014 and 2018 in historical museums in Central and Eastern Europe. The main goal of the book is to verify the thesis about the existence of supranational collective memory in societies affected by the shared experience of totalitarianism. The analysis of the extensive research material allowed the author to distinguish social practices and types of exhibitions. Historical policies conducted by individual states exhibit features in common, their goal being to accustom people to the difficult past, to shape the positive images of the countries and to create the cultural founding myths of the post-communist states. Historical museum exhibitions become the executors of these ideas by introducing official interpretations of the communist period.

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Anna Zie˛bin´ska-Witek is an Associate Professor at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her fields of study include museology, the methodology of history, theoretical problems of historical narrations, visualisation of memory and the ways of representation of the traumatic past in museums. She is the author of the monographs: The Holocaust: Problems of Representation (2005) and History in Museums. A Study on Holocaust Exhibitions (2011) (both in Polish). She is also the author of the Polish translation of Berel Lang’s study Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (2006) and the recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation Grant (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.) and the Fulbright Grant (Princeton University).

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