Of Truths, Secrets, and Loyalties: Political Belonging and State Building in Poland after State Socialism

Saygun Gökarıksel

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the accusations of 'collaboration' with the communist-era secret service in Poland's capitalist democracy. Situated in the global context of the 1989 'revolutions,' it examines the role of law in redrawing the moral and political boundaries of the new bo