Memory and change in Europe : Eastern perspectives / edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak.

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.