Political Myths in History Textbooks

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations and Glossary
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Part I: The Contexts
• 1. Terms, Theories and Methods
• 1.1 Theory of Totalitarianism in Research on History of the Falange (FET) and the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR)
• 1.2 Political Myths in Textbook Writing
• 1.3 Memory
• 1.3.1 Collective Memory
• 1.3.2 Sites of Memory
• 1.4 Invented Tradition and Imagined Community
• 1.5 Historical Textbook Research
• 1.5.1 Text Analysis
• 1.5.2 Research on Pictures
• 1.6 Research on Violence and Power
• 1.7 Gender Studies and the Notion of Machismo in Spain
• 1.8 The Stereotype of Judeo-Communism in Poland
• 1.9 Literature, Sources, Method
• 2. Party, Propaganda and Postwar Ideologisation of Education
• 2.1 History of the Party During the War
• 2.1.1 The FET in the Spanish Civil War: 1937–1939
• 2.1.2 The PPR in the Second World War: 1942–1945
• Comparative Summary
• 2.2 Key Principles and Motives of Propaganda in Franco’s Spain and People’s Poland
• 2.2.1 Nationalists’ Propaganda in Spain
• 2.2.2 Polish Communists’ Propaganda
• Comparative Summary
• 2.3 Postwar Ideologisation of Education in Spain and Poland
• 2.3.1 Education and Textbook Authors in Spain, 1939–1951
• 2.3.2 Education and Textbook Authors in Poland, 1945–1956
• Comparative Summary
• Part II: Case Studies
• 3. Main Political Myths in Early Post-War History Textbooks
• 3.1 The Myths on the Civil War in the Spanish Textbooks
• 3.1.1 The Alzamiento Nacional of 18th July
• 3.1.2 The Francoists’ War Effort
• 3.1.3 The Romantic Myth of the Victory of 1st April
• 3.2 Political Myths Regarding the Second World War in Polish Textbooks
• 3.2.1 Brotherhood-in-Arms with the USSR
• 3.2.2 The War Effort of the Polish People’s Army
• 3.2.3 Myths of Victory and Common Joy
• 4. Textual and Pictorial Representation of the Party in Post-War Textbooks
• 4.1 The Falange in the History Textbooks of the Early Franco’s Regime
• 4.1.1 The Years 1939–1945
• 4.1.2 The Period from 1946 to 1951
• 4.2 The Polish People’s Party in Textbooks and Curricula in Stalinist Poland
• 4.2.1 The 1945–1950 Era
• 4.2.2 The Period 1951–1956
• Conclusions
• Memory Politics in Education in Franco’s Spain and People’s Poland: the Early Years
• Textbook Narratives on the FET and the PPR in a Comparative Approach  
• Similarities
• Differences
• Bibliography
• Index