Entangled in Fear: Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944-1947 Zaremba Marcin

Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. A society's fear is born out of the convergence of individual experiences, when dozens, hundreds, thousands, and millions of people are afraid of the same thing at the same time.This is a story about postwar Polish society and its emotions. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it.

Now available in English for the first time, Entangled in Fear reveals the broken society where bandits, hunger, bombs, Russia, and countless other threats had an immense influence on Poles as they struggled through the wreckage caused by World War II. This is a story of heroes: soldiers, deserters, orphans, and beggars. Journalist and historian Marcin Zaremba uses sociology, psychology, and history to explore collective fear in official documents and the personal papers of