@ARTICLE{Perkowski_Piotr_The_2022,
 author={Perkowski, Piotr},
 volume={tom 52},
 pages={349-370},
 journal={Historyka Studia Metodologiczne},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2022},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział PAN w Krakowie},
 publisher={Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego},
 abstract={Late, unlike heavy, modernity until now has been devoid of any radical project for the future. It rather makes people use a rose‑tinted past to cope with future‑oriented anxieties. Solidarity’s desire for heavy modernity demonstrates that this sickness has been around for a long time. In what ways were the people of Solidarity nostalgic, and how did modernity’s global crisis reinvigorate the “desirable heaviness of being”? “The desirable heaviness of being” depicts the phenomenon of nostalgia for postwar heavy modernity within the early Solidarity movement. The theory of post‑socialist nostalgia highlights the importance of nostalgia for the future‑oriented past of heavy modernity in appraising the system during the Solidarity period. The interplay between Solidarity, late state socialism, and the crisis of heavy modernity exemplifies Eastern Europe’s interactions with globalising economies before and after 1989. The recollections of the August Strike as well as the Solidarity trade union’s programme provide examples for the longing. The links between state socialism and the global crisis of modernity shed light on current reasons for nostalgia, which may be of interest to “rescue history”.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={The desirable heaviness of being. Solidarity’s nostalgia for heavy modernity in the times of crisis, 1980–81.},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125993/PDF/2022-HSRK-19.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/hsm.2022.142732},
 keywords={heavy modernity, nostalgia, late state socialism, Eastern Europe, Solidarity movement},
}