Musealisation of Communism in Poland and East Central Europe

Comparative studies on the exhibitions of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The conclusions contained in the monograph provide insight into how the post-communist countries are building new identities and shaping historical awareness.

Anna Zie˛bin´ska-Witek is an Associate Professor at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her fields of study include museology, the methodology of history, theoretical problems of historical narrations, visualisation of memory and the ways of representation of the traumatic past in museums. She is the author of the monographs: The Holocaust: Problems of Representation (2005) and History in Museums. A Study on Holocaust Exhibitions (2011) (both in Polish). She is also the author of the Polish translation of Berel Lang’s study Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (2006) and the recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation Grant (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.) and the Fulbright Grant (Princeton University).