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Title Memory and change in Europe : Eastern perspectives / edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 373 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in contemporary European history ; volume 16
Studies in contemporary European history ; 16.
Contents Foreword / Jeffrey Olick -- Introduction: Memory and change in Eastern Europe : how special? / Małgorzata 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 / Sławomir 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 -- The second world war in the memory of contemporary Polish society / Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski -- Auschwitz and Katyn in politial bondage : 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 / Yana Yancheva -- Uses and misuses of memory : dealing with the communist past in postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania / Claudia-Florentina Dobre
Summary "In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors avoid the trap of Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region's experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of Europe. This volume offers a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-357) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History
Collective memory -- Europe, Eastern -- History
Social change -- Europe, Eastern -- History
Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Collective memory
International relations
Manners and customs
Memory -- Social aspects
Post-communism -- Social aspects
Social change
Social conditions
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Sozialer Wandel
Kulturwandel
Mémoire -- Aspect social -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire.
Mémoire collective -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire.
Changement social -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire.
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs
Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005643
Europe, Eastern -- Relations -- Europe, Western
Europe, Western -- Relations -- Europe, Eastern
Subject Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Osteuropa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pakier, Małgorzata, 1979- editor.
Wawrzyniak, Joanna, 1975- editor.
ISBN 9781782389309
178238930X