This collection of articles on Polish history after 1945 begins with a study of the
reconstruction of Polish towns after the World War II presenting how ideological images of the
nation transformed the physical form of urban landscapes. The book devotes also a long part to
individual identities exploring the most intimate level of representation of consciousness:
autobiographies of Polish immigrants into former German territories. The last two articles
explore the identitarian adaptation of Polish anticommunist emigrants in Spain and the
possibilities of dispute about Europe at the beginning of Communist regimes in Poland and
Central Europe. The book puts problems of private identities in the context of European
discourses showing how politics are a part of individual lives too.
