Entangled in Fear

Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944–1947

AvMarcin Zaremba

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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"Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it. A society's fear is born out of the convergence of individual experiences, when dozens, hundreds, thousands, and millions of people are afraid of the same thing at the same time." This is a story about postwar Polish society and its emotions. This is a story of heroes: soldiers, deserters, orphans, and beggars. Now available in English for the first time, Entangled in Fear reveals the broken society where bandits, hunger, bombs, Russia, and countless other threats had an immense influence on Poles as they struggled through the wreckage caused by World War II. Journalist and historian Marcin Zaremba uses sociology, psychology, and history to explore collective fear in official documents and the personal papers of those who were left to survive in postwar Poland. In doing so, he reveals how fear of famine and epidemics, sexual violence and looting, joblessness and invasion led directly to collective action on the part of Poles. A groundbreaking work, Entangled in Fear challenges the reader to consider how emotions have shaped human history and how a more serious engagement with emotions is key to a fuller understanding of the past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-06
Mått:216 x 279 x 24 mm
Vikt:848 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253063090
Översättare:Maya Latynski

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Marcin Zaremba is Professor of History at the University of Warsaw. He is author of the award-winning Wielka trwoga: Polska 1944–1947, over 80 scientific articles, and more than 170 press articles in leading Polish newspapers and weeklies.

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Zaremba ... frames his work within the best theoretical literature on the history of emotions and, through reference to a very large body of primary material that includes official records and personal papers, illustrates the lived experience of the individuals who are his subject, including many supposedly ordinary people ... [and] concludes with a sensitive, insightful assessment of Poles' fears of other ethnic groups, such as Germans, Jews, and Ukrainians. The individual testimonies he cites to support his analyses are often heart-wrenching, but they lend authenticity to his larger picture of the complexity, nature, and significance of fear in this period.- P. W. Knoll, emeritus, University of Southern California Marcin Zaremba's Entangled in Fear is a long-awaited English translation of Wielka Trwoga. Polska 1944–1947. Ludowa reakcja na kryzys (The great fear: A popular reaction to crisis [Warsaw, 2012]), an excellent, innovative (though not uncontroversial) study on fear in postwar Poland that comprises one of the most important works of social history and a key Polish contribution to the field of the history of emotions in recent years.- Katarzyna Person – The Emmanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute (Austrian History Yearbook)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Before There Was Fear1. In the Labyrinth of Fear2. Fear in Interwar Culture: The Bolsheviks and "Jewish Communism"3. The Trauma of a World War: Psychosocial Effects of the Second World War4. In the Beginning Was Chaos5. "Out of the frying pan and into the fire": The Dreaded Red Army6. The Demobilized7. Looting Fever8. Outlaws: "The dishonored soldiers' peasant war"9. It Was More Than Just Travel Nerves10. The Politics of Fear11. The Phantoms of Transience12. The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Hunger, High Prices, and Infectious Diseases13. Ethnic Phobias and ViolenceConclusion: "The Boogeyman"BibliographyIndex