Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Preface to the English edition -- Part I. Politics -- Chapter 1. Party-approved Mickiewicz: speeches, monuments, rituals -- 1. Role models: Adam Mickiewicz in Soviet Lviv -- 2. Romantic tradition in the years 1945-1948 -- 3. Communist celebrations: the 150th anniversary of Mickiewicz's birth -- 3.1. The problem of Dziady -- 3.2. December 1948: the ritual of Thanksgiving -- 3.3. The monument in Warsaw -- 4. The national edition of Mickiewicz's Works: censorship -- 5. Mickiewicz in the times of thaw: the poet's 100th death anniversary -- 5.1. "You budge a bit, Mr Mickiewicz and we shall budge too" -- 5.2. The monument in Kraków -- 6. From October 1956 until the millennium -- 7. Kazimierz Dejmek's Dziady -- Chapter 2. Party-approved Goethe: speeches, monuments, rituals -- 1. German cultural policy in the years 1945-1949 -- 1.1. Weimar: remembrance in practice -- 1.2. The theory of "cultural heritage" -- 2. Communist celebrations: around the Goethe jubilee (1949) -- 2.1. Celebrations in Weimar -- 3. Faust as a national hero: the strategies of canonisation -- 3.1. The debate over Faust (1952-1953) -- 3.2. Schiller's Year -- 4. Concern for "unfalsified heritage": censorship -- 5. The Bitterfeld way -- 6. The third part of Faust -- 7. The year 1971 -- Part II. Research -- Chapter 1. "New mickiewiczology": Marxist conceptions of Romanticism -- 1. Romanticism in literary criticism in 1944-1948 -- 2. For Mickiewicz's new image -- 3. Wacław Kubacki's Mickiewicz -- 4. The Convention of Polish Philologists (1950) -- 5. Stefan Żółkiewski's Mickiewicz -- 6. The ILR in the Jubilee Year 1955 -- 7. The ILR criticised: the years 1957-1958 -- 8. The Convention of Polish Philologists (1958) -- Chapter 2. "New Goetheology": Marxist conceptions of Classicism -- 1. In György Lukács' circle of thought.

1.1. Ernst Bloch and Hans Mayer -- 2. Gerhard Scholz's Lehrgang -- 3. Ingress of the new methodology -- 4. Settling the accounts with György Lukács -- 5. The classicism of Helmut Holtzhauer -- 6. Faust: a signature of the century -- Part III. Literary output -- Chapter 1. "Mickiewicz - a living man" -- 1. Poems about the poet -- 1.1. Friendship with Pushkin -- 2. Socialist realist stylistics -- 2.1. Ballade -- 2.2. Epic poem -- 3. The Romantic tradition in Polish poetry after 1956 -- Chapter 2. "We all come out of Wilhelm Meister" -- 1. Goethe in East German poetry -- 1.1. The Bitterfeld poems -- 2. "We all come out of Wilhelm Meister": socialiste ducational novels -- 2.1. Theoretical basis -- 2.2. From theory to practice: educational novel -- 3. Overcoming the paradigm: Goethe another way -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Index.