Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums
Subtitle: Re-Visualizing the Recent Past
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781350103702
Subjects: Political science
Description: "This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences, and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at regional and European level.  Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums argues that museums have a huge influence on the image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they use a vast array of media tools, visual tactics and commercial strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the past and to shape the attitude of public opinion."--