Communicative significance of the media and memory drives in forming the collective memory of Armia Krajowa in the middle of the 20th century

The dissertation “Communicative Significance of the Media and Memory Drives in Forming the Collective Memory of Armia Krajowa in the Middle of the 20th Century” aims at researching the role of memory drives and the media in the construction and dissemination of collective memory and at identifying the communicative factors that predetermined the construction and change in the collective memory of Armia Krajowa in the middle of the 20th century. The dissertation relies on the assumption that public memory may be open to different collective memories which share similar narratives. This approach draws upon the theory of communicative action by Jürgen Habermas. The pluralism of public memory may be ensured by including into the process of its construction memory drives, which are associated with collective memories which have the narrative and communicate the values identical to public memory. The media use memory drives for the authenticity of the memory narrative constructed. Memory drives mean independent communication channels which are integrated in the narrative created by the media and which acquire new meaning due to the interpretative capacity of the media. The narrative of collective memory of Armia Krajowa was based on the propaganda disseminated by the AK Information and Propaganda Office, however, the narrative created was not reinforced by media drives. For this reason, the collective memory narrative on AK changes under the influence of the new media today, gets reduced to the events of the summer of 1944. This has been influenced by the new media which communicated the narrative about the military operations of the summer of 1944