Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
5. Introduction: Illiberal, Aliberal, Anti-liberal? 1
6. PART I Essays on PiS
7. CHAPTER 1 NEVER MIND THE BOLEKS! 23
8. CHAPTER 2 PIS: THE END OF THE BEGINNING 39
9. CHAPTER 3 AUTHORITARIAN DRIVE IN POLAND 55
10. CHAPTER 4 THE TRIUMPH OF NATIONAL COMMUNISM 65
11. CHAPTER 5 POLISH RIGHT-WING POPULISM 80
12. CHAPTER 6 CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS? 96
13. CHAPTER 7 FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE AGE OF KACZYŃSKI 104
14. PART II PiS’s Politics of History
15. CHAPTER 8 THE NEW ROMANTICS 117
16. CHAPTER 9 THE HISTORY MEN 131
17. CHAPTER 10 POLAND’S CULTURE OF COMMEMORATION 160
18. CHAPTER 11 POLAND’S THEATER OF DEATH 170
19. PART III PiS’s Politics of Normality
20. CHAPTER 12 THE QUEST FOR THE “NORMAL” FAMILY 181
21. CHAPTER 13 LGBTQ AND POLISH PATRIARCHY 196
22. CHAPTER 14 AN IDENTITY RESET 203
23. CONCLUSION 213
24. Part IV Interviews
25. HISTORY AS WE MAY WISH IT TO BE 227
26. 966 AND ALL THAT 234
27. THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME 244
28. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF 247
29. UNDERSTAND THE WAR, UNDERSTAND POLAND 251
30. DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH 254
31. APPENDICES
32. APPENDIX I: TIMELINE 259
33. APPENDIX II: GLOSSARY 270
34. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 277
35. INDEX 283