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Author Mark, James

Title The unfinished revolution : making sense of the communist past in Central-Eastern Europe / James Mark
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents The unfinished revolution -- Completing the revolution: history commissions and institutes of national memory -- Criminalizing communism? : History at terror sites and its statue parks and national museums -- Containing fascism: anti-communism in the age of Holocaust memory -- Remaking the autobiography: communists and their pasts -- Victims' stories -- The afterlife of atrocity: remembering Red Army rape after 1989 -- Divided societies, democratic memory?
Summary While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people's revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new democratic societies are still divided by the past. Some view 1989 as a betrayal and defeat, and continue an ̀unfinished struggle' against the former regime; others seek to heal the divisions of history; and ex-Communists proclaim themselves to be the real liberators from dictatorship
This book also presents the voices of ordinary people who lived through Communism, and uncovers the variety of ways in which they have come to terms with their choices and experiences. Drawing on a broad range of themes and sources, this is the first work to integrate the study of politics, culture, society and memory across central-eastern Europe. --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-290) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Communism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central
Communism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern
Post-communism -- Europe, Central
Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern
Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central
Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern
Collective memory -- Europe, Central
Collective memory -- Europe, Eastern
Communisme.
Postcommunisme.
Evolution politique.
Dictature.
Société.
Histoire.
Mémoire collective.
Collective memory
Communism -- Social aspects
Memory -- Social aspects
Post-communism
Social conditions
SUBJECT Europe, Central -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003011368
Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005642
Subject Europe centrale.
Europe orientale.
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300170115
0300170114