title: How History Matters: Polish Memory Politics and Policies Toward Russia Since 1989
abstract: This thesis examines how memory can affect international relations and vice versa. In order to examine how memory can affect international relations the relationship between Poland and the Russian Federation since 1989 is analyzed as well as how their pasts and the period of Soviet dominance affects this relationship. This thesis focuses on two specific modes of memory: the Katy? Forest Massacre and Soviet monuments and memorials in Poland, specifically the Polish-Russian Brothers in Arms monume