States of memory : continuities, conflicts, and transformations in national retrospection / edited by Jeffrey K. Olick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jeffrey K. Olick -- Rethinking a great event : the October Revolution as memory project / Fred C. Corney -- Of storytellers and master narratives : modernity, memory, and history in fascist Italy / Simonetta Falasca Zamponi -- Idols of the emperor / Matt K. Matsuda -- Confucius and the cultural revolution : a study in collective memory / Tong Zhang and Barry Schwartz -- Institutional legacies and collective memories : the case of the Spanish transition to democracy / Paloma Aguilar -- When do collective memories last? : founding moments in the United States and Australia / Lyn Spillman -- Legacies and liabilities of an insurgent past : remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. on the House and Senate floor / Francesca Polletta -- Postnationalist pasts : the case of Israel / Uri Ram -- What does it mean to normalize the past? : official memory in German politics since 1989 / Jeffrey K. Olick -- "End" of the postwar : Japan at the turn of the millennium / Carol Gluck -- Calendars and history : a comparative study of the social organization of national memory / Eviatar Zerubavel -- Afterword : Borges and brass / Charles Tilly.