Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe, ed. Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind and Julie Fedor
Journal: The English Historical Review
Year: 2018

As the editors of this volume, Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind and Julie Fedor, underline, the collapse of Communism in East-Central Europe and Russia transformed ‘memory’ from being a tool of resistance (in Milan Kundera’s famous maxim from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ‘[T]he struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting’) into one of integrative and divisive power within and between countries (p. 1). ‘Memory’ is defined as a spectrum of official and other