Reviewers Unmasked

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. Paweł Is a Dead Man 1
5. I. The Beginnings
6. It All Started with an Article … 7
7. Museum, but What Museum? 13
8. “Disintegration of the Polish Nation” 16
9. History Museums: Between Collective Imagination and Politics 27
10. II. Making the Museum
11. The First Months at the Office of the Prime Minister 37
12. Assembling the Gdańsk Team 48
13. Architecture, Archeology, and Construction 55
14. Building the Collection and Planning the Exhibitions 62
15. The Academic Advisory Committee, or a Multitude of Perspectives 76
16. From the Concept to the Exhibitions and Everything in Between 83
17. Before the Storm 92
18. III. The War
19. “The Polish Point of View” 97
20. Minister Gliński Comes at Night 104
21. The Race Against Time 111
22. Parliamentary Committee on Culture: Hunting for “Encyclopedists” 116
23. Reviewers Unmasked 125
24. Stalingrad Instead of Blitzkrieg 138
25. The Finale 154
26. Not the End of the Story 173
27. Bibliography 180
28. Index of Names 182
29. Photos 185