Physical Description
xiv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Jeffrey Olick
Introduction: Memory and change in Eastern Europe : how special? / Malgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak
Part I. Memory dialogues and monologues
The transformative power of memory / Aleida Assmann
Political correctness and memories constructed for "Eastern Europe" / Andrzej Nowak
Part II. Eastern Europe as a (unique) memory framework?
The (non- )travelling concept of les lieux de mémoire : Central and Eastern European perspectives / Maciej Górny and Kornelia Kończal
Ain't nothing special / Slawomir Kapralski
Biographical and collective memory : mutual influences in Central and Eastern European context / Kaja Kaźmierska
Part III. Eastern European memories facing historical change and cultural transformations
The path of bringing the dark to light : memory of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe / Joanna Beata Michlic
The rise of an East European community of memory? : on lobbying for the Gulag memory via Brussels / Lidia Zessin-Jurek
Two concepts of victimhood : property restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 / Stanisław Tyszka
Shared memory culture? : nationalizing the "Great Patriotic War" in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands / Tatiana Zhurzhenko
History, politics and memory (Ukraine, 1990s-2000s) / Georgiy Kasianov
Walking memory through city space in Sevastopol, Crimea / Judy Brown
Part IV. Foci of memories in Eastern Europe
World War II in the memory of contemporary Polish society / Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski
Auschwitz and Katynʹ in bondage of politics : the process of shaping memory in communist Poland / Jacek Chrobaczyński and Piotr Trojański
Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German lieu de mémoire? : on the asymmetry of memories / Matthias Weber
Remembering collectivization in Bulgaria / Iana Iancheva
Uses and misuses of memory : dealing with communist past in postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania / Claudia-Florentina Dobre.
Other Authors/Editors
Pakier, Małgorzata, 1979-
Wawrzyniak, Joanna, 1975-
ISBN
9781782389293
1782389296
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-357) and index.
Foreword / Jeffrey Olick -- Introduction: Memory and change in Eastern Europe : how special? / Malgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak -- Part I. Memory dialogues and monologues -- The transformative power of memory / Aleida Assmann -- Political correctness and memories constructed for "Eastern Europe" / Andrzej Nowak -- Part II. Eastern Europe as a (unique) memory framework? -- The (non- )travelling concept of les lieux de mémoire : Central and Eastern European perspectives / Maciej Górny and Kornelia Kończal -- Ain't nothing special / Slawomir Kapralski -- Biographical and collective memory : mutual influences in Central and Eastern European context / Kaja Kaźmierska -- Part III. Eastern European memories facing historical change and cultural transformations -- The path of bringing the dark to light : memory of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe / Joanna Beata Michlic -- The rise of an East European community of memory? : on lobbying for the Gulag memory via Brussels / Lidia Zessin-Jurek -- Two concepts of victimhood : property restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 / Stanisław Tyszka -- Shared memory culture? : nationalizing the "Great Patriotic War" in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- History, politics and memory (Ukraine, 1990s-2000s) / Georgiy Kasianov -- Walking memory through city space in Sevastopol, Crimea / Judy Brown -- Part IV. Foci of memories in Eastern Europe -- World War II in the memory of contemporary Polish society / Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski -- Auschwitz and Katynʹ in bondage of politics : the process of shaping memory in communist Poland / Jacek Chrobaczyński and Piotr Trojański -- Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German lieu de mémoire? : on the asymmetry of memories / Matthias Weber -- Remembering collectivization in Bulgaria / Iana Iancheva -- Uses and misuses of memory : dealing with communist past in postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania / Claudia-Florentina Dobre.
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