Memory and change in Europe
Subtitle: Eastern perspectives
By: edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak
Series: Studies in contemporary European history -- volume 16
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781782389293; 9781782389309
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Relations; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Jeffrey Olick; title: Introduction: Memory and change in Eastern Europe : how special? / Malgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak; title: Part I. Memory dialogues and monologues; title: The transformative power of memory / Aleida Assmann; title: Political correctness and memories constructed for "Eastern Europe" / Andrzej Nowak; title: Part II. Eastern Europe as a (unique) memory framework?; title: The (non-)travelling concept of les lieux de mémoire : Central and Eastern European perspectives / Maciej Górny and Kornelia Kończal; title: Ain't nothing special / Slawomir Kapralski; title: Biographical and collective memory : mutual influences in Central and Eastern European context / Kaja Kaźmierska; title: Part III. Eastern European memories facing historical change and cultural transformations; title: The path of bringing the dark to light : memory of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe / Joanna Beata Michlic; title: The rise of an East European community of memory? : on lobbying for the Gulag memory via Brussels / Lidia Zessin-Jurek; title: Two concepts of victimhood : property restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 / Stanisław Tyszka; title: Shared memory culture? : nationalizing the "Great Patriotic War" in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands / Tatiana Zhurzhenko; title: History, politics and memory (Ukraine, 1990s-2000s) / Georgiy Kasianov; title: Walking memory through city space in Sevastopol, Crimea / Judy Brown; title: Part IV. Foci of memories in Eastern Europe; title: World War II in the memory of contemporary Polish society / Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski; title: Auschwitz and Katynʹ in bondage of politics : the process of shaping memory in communist Poland / Jacek Chrobaczyński and Piotr Trojański; title: Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German lieu de mémoire? : on the asymmetry of memories / Matthias Weber; title: Remembering collectivization in Bulgaria / Iana Iancheva; title: Uses and misuses of memory : dealing with communist past in postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania / Claudia-Florentina Dobre.