Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past [electronic resource] /
Lim, Jie-Hyun.author.
Walker, Barbara.author.
Lambert, Peter.author.
This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Past of Mass Dictatorship; Part I: Entangled Memory and Comparative History; 2 The Predicaments of Culture: War, Dictatorship and Modernity in Early Post-War West Germany and Japan; 3 Victimhood Nationalism in the Memory of Mass Dictatorship; 4 Creating a Victimised Nation: The Politics of the Austrian People's Courts and High Treason; Part II: The Dialectical Interplay of History and Memory; 5 Ukraine Faces Its Soviet Past: History versus Policy versus Memory
6 History and Responsibility: On the Debates on the Shōwa History7 Widukind or Karl der Große? Perspectives on Historical Culture and Memory in the Third Reich and Post-War West Germany; Part III: Pluralizing Memories: Fragmented, Contested, Resisted; 8 The Suppression and Recall of Colonial Memory: Manchukuo and the Cold War in the Two Koreas; 9 Accomplices of Violence: Guilt and Purification through Altruism among the Moscow Human Rights Activists of the 1960s and 1970s; 10 Consuming Fragments of Mao Zedong: The Chairman's Final Two Decades at the Helm
11 The Lived Space of Recollection: How Holocaust Memorials are Conceived Differently TodayIndex
Includes index.
This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.
World history.
World politics.
Social history.
History, Modern.
Civilization-History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Political History.
Social History.
Modern History.
Cultural History.