Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Author's addresses ix
5. The Warsaw Uprising monument xi
6. 1. Facing the past 1
7. 2. A discourse analytic approach to the commemorative speeches about the Warsaw Uprising 19
8. 3. The Messianic Warsaw 41
9. 4. The search for acceptable perspectives 57
10. 5. A politician’s sociology 95
11. 6. Framing the past 116
12. 7. From commemoration to self-celebration 141
13. 8. How the Russians handled a problem 173
14. 9. Merging frames 193
15. 10. Pope John Paul II as a Polish Patriot 211
16. 11. The politics of public memory 222
17. Index 243