Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports 2013 Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw Kyle Jordan Meadows West Virginia University Follow this and additional works at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd Recommended Citation Meadows, Kyle Jordan, "Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw" (2013). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 250. https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/250 This Thesis is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by the The Research Repository @ WVU with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Thesis in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you must obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This Thesis has been accepted for inclusion in WVU Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports collection by an authorized administrator of The Research Repository @ WVU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw Kyle Jordan Meadows Thesis submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Science at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History Robert Blobaum, Ph.D, Chair Joshua Arthurs, Ph.D. Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Ph.D. Department of History Morgantown, West Virginia 2013 Keywords: Commemorations; East-Central European History; Modern History; International Relations; Post-Communism; Memory Politics ABSTRACT Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw Kyle Jordan Meadows Germany and Poland since 1989 have become lands of contested memory, as reflected by their attempts to commemorate the series of reforms that led to the end of their Communist regimes.