Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe [electronic resource] /
Blacker, Uilleam.author.
Etkind, Alexander.author.
Fedor, J.editor.
It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies.
Includes index.
It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; Uilleam Blacker and Alexander Etkind -- PART I: DIVIDED MEMORY -- 1. Europe's Divided Memory; Aleida Assmann -- 2. Human Rights and European Remembrance; Jay Winter -- 3. European Memory: Between Jewish and Cosmopolitan; Natan Sznaider -- PART II: POST-COLONIAL, POST-SOCIALIST -- 4. Between Paris and Warsaw: Multidirectional Memory, Ethics and Historical Responsibility; Michael Rothberg -- 5. Theory as Memory Practice: The Divided Discourse on Poland's Postcoloniality; Dirk Uffelmann -- 6. Occupation vs Colonization: Post-Soviet Latvia and the Provincialization of Europe; Kevin M. F. Platt -- PART III: MOURNING MATTERS -- 7. Murder in the Cemetery: Memorial Clashes over the Victims of the Soviet-Polish Wars; Andrzej Nowak -- 8. Living among the Ghosts of Others: Urban Postmemory in Eastern Europe; Uilleam Blacker -- 9. Towards Cosmopolitan Mourning: Belarusian Literature between History and Politics; Simon Lewis -- PART IV: MEMORY WARS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- 10. Why Digital Memory Studies Should Not Overlook Eastern Europe's Memory Wars; Ellen Rutten -- 11. Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Ukraine (1991-2010); Andriy Portnov -- 12. The Struggle for History: The Past as a Limited Resource; Ilya Kalinin.
Europe—History.
Civilization—History.
Russia—History.
Europe, Eastern—History.
Social history.
Historiography.
European History.
Cultural History.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Social History.
Historiography and Method.