Collective Memories in War

Introduction Part I: Policy of History and Memory in Different Socio-Cultural Contexts 1.The Politics of History in Poland and Germany, Michal Luczewski, Paulina Bednarz-Luczewska, Tomasz Maslanka 2. Collective memory and its Cultural Antecedents in Russia, Michail Chernysh 3. Between Past and Present: The forming of views on history in the Czech Republic, Jiri Subrt Part II: Cultural Memory Through School Textbooks 4. Discourse Analysis of School History Textbooks in Russia: Representation of the Afghanistan War, Elizaveta Polukhina, Alexander Malyugin 5. Between Memory and History - cultural memory in Polish school history books in the years 1945-2011. Analysis of three historical events, Ilona Golebiewska 6. From Soviet to Ukrainian History Textbooks: Conflicts of interpretation, Oksana Danilenko Part III: Memory Representations in Social Space 7. The Space of Memory in Afghanistan War Museum, Irina Tartakovskaya, Elena Rozhdestvenskaya 8. War After War. The WWII memorials as memory sites - the case of Warsaw, Krystyna Ewa Siellawa-Kolbowska 9. Local Authorities, Memory Sites and the City Space, Anna Strelnikova Part IV: Narrating Memory 10. Wounded Memory and Collective Identity, Victoria Semenova 11. Afghan Veterans: Resonance of memory, Elena Rozhdestvenskaya 12. Veteran Web Sites as Mirrors for a Forgotten War, Irina Ksenofontova Part V: Memory and Gender 13. Constructing Masculinity from the War Spirit, Irina Tartakovskaya 14. Body, Memory and Emotions of Male Members of the Army with Direct Experience of War, Alexandrina Vanke