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A prominent Polish sociologist, Professor Barbara Szacka, has been engaged in the empirical study and theoretical comprehension of the phenomenon of collective memory of the past, the ideas about history, its temporal and spatial localisation, and the place of mythological constructions in the formation of group, and in particular, national identity, for many decades. This book is the result of more than half a century of research and contains not only a summary of the research of contemporary European and American sociologists in this field, but also a wealth of material from numerous surveys of Poles about their attitudes to key issues in the history of the twentieth century.