Nowa Huta : Generations of Change in a Model Socialist Town /

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"In 1949 construction of the planned town of Nowa Huta began on the outskirts of Kraków, Poland. Its centerpiece, the Lenin Steelworks, promised a secure future for workers and their families. By the 1980s, however, the rise of the Solidarity movement and the ensuing shock therapy program of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pozniak, Kinga
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Socialism.
Social conditions.
Social change.
New towns.
Memory > Social aspects.
Intergenerational relations.
Collective memory.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Memoire collective > Pologne > Cracovie > Histoire.
Relations entre generations > Pologne > Cracovie > Histoire.
Villes nouvelles > Pologne > Études de cas.
Socialism > Poland > Kraków.
Social change > Poland > Kraków > History.
Memory > Social aspects > Poland > Kraków > History.
Collective memory > Poland > Kraków > History.
Intergenerational relations > Poland > Kraków > History.
New towns > Poland > Case studies.
Poland > Kraków > Nowa Huta.
Poland > Kraków.
Poland.
Nowa Huta (Kraków, Poland) > History.
Nowa Huta (Kraków, Poland) > Social conditions.
Kraków (Poland) > History.
Kraków (Poland) > Social conditions.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Memory and Change in Nowa Huta's Cityscape
  • From Lenin to Mittal : Work, Memory, and Change in Nowa Huta's Steelworks
  • Between a Model Socialist Town and a Bastion of Resistance : Representations of the Past in Museums and Commemorations
  • Socialism's Builders and Destroyers : Memories of Socialism among Nowa Huta Residents
  • My Grandpa Built This Town : Memory and Identity among Nowa Huta's Younger Generation.

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