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A Monument with a Social Message

Beet Girls from Sakskøbing in the Cultural Memory of Poles and Danes

Włodzimierz Karol Pessel
Scandinavian Studies, April 2024, 96 (2) 49-70; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/scs.96.2.49
Włodzimierz Karol Pessel
Włodzimierz Karol Pessel is Professor of Cultural and Urban Studies at the University of Warsaw and a regular collaborator in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the SWPS University.
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    • One Monument, Four Forms of Memory
    • Discovering a Surprising Polyphony
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    • Political Memory: Matters between States
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