Kate Korycki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University in Canada. She has published on Polish memory of communism and the Holocaust, on Indigeneity in Canada, sexual identity in Iran, and class and sexuality politics in France.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionPART I: THEORYChapter 1. Weaponizing the Past, or Memory as PoliticsChapter 2. Theory Localized or Dramatis Personae of Polish PoliticsPART II: WEAPONIZING THE PAST: THE CASE OF POLANDChapter 3. The Patriots—Using Memory Openly and BelligerentlyChapter 4. The Managers—Using Memory CovertlyChapter 5. The Liberals—Using Memory DefensivelyChapter 6. The Objectors—Refusing Memory as Political WeaponConclusion: Looking Beyond: Weaponizing the Past and a Populist Moment

Kate Korycki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University in Canada. She has published on Polish memory of communism and the Holocaust, on Indigeneity in Canada, sexual identity in Iran, and class and sexuality politics in France.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionPART I: THEORYChapter 1. Weaponizing the Past, or Memory as PoliticsChapter 2. Theory Localized or Dramatis Personae of Polish PoliticsPART II: WEAPONIZING THE PAST: THE CASE OF POLANDChapter 3. The Patriots—Using Memory Openly and BelligerentlyChapter 4. The Managers—Using Memory CovertlyChapter 5. The Liberals—Using Memory DefensivelyChapter 6. The Objectors—Refusing Memory as Political WeaponConclusion: Looking Beyond: Weaponizing the Past and a Populist Moment

Kate Korycki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University in Canada. She has published on Polish memory of communism and the Holocaust, on Indigeneity in Canada, sexual identity in Iran, and class and sexuality politics in France.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionPART I: THEORYChapter 1. Weaponizing the Past, or Memory as PoliticsChapter 2. Theory Localized or Dramatis Personae of Polish PoliticsPART II: WEAPONIZING THE PAST: THE CASE OF POLANDChapter 3. The Patriots—Using Memory Openly and BelligerentlyChapter 4. The Managers—Using Memory CovertlyChapter 5. The Liberals—Using Memory DefensivelyChapter 6. The Objectors—Refusing Memory as Political WeaponConclusion: Looking Beyond: Weaponizing the Past and a Populist Moment