Memory and Change in Europe
Eastern Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2015
Book
Hardback
388 pages
978-1-78238-929-3 (ISBN)
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 to this volume 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. They offer 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.
Reviews / Votes
"[This volume] addresses memory and cultural transformations from an eastern point of view... [and] illuminates very different aspects of the problems Eastern European researchers face identifying national crossroads of diverging memories and the necessity of coming to terms with a surfeit of memories which had not hitherto been publicly articulated or acknowledged." ? European History Quarterly"The various contributions to this book highlight why the joint enterprise of creating and reconciling memories between Eastern and Western Europe remains a complex undertaking that escapes straightforward answers. Yet the search for answers is valuable and stimulating. The reader is invited to travel to locales which, while not terrae incognitae, reveal themselves in new and fascinating ways." ? Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Illustrations
11 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
711 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78238-929-3 (9781782389293)
DOI
10.3167/9781782389293
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Malgorzata Pakier is Head of the Research Department at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Her publications include The Construction of European Holocaust Memory. German and Polish Cinema after 1989 (2013), and A European Memory?: Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance (co-edited with Bo Strath, 2010).
Content
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Jeffrey Olick
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special?
Malgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak
PART I: MEMORY DIALOGUES AND MONOLOGUES
Chapter 1. The Transformative Power of Memory
Aleida Assmann
Chapter 2. Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for 'Eastern Europe'
Andrzej Nowak
PART II: EUROPE AS A (UNIQUE) MEMORY FRAMEWORK?
Chapter 3. The (non-)Travelling Concept of Les Lieux de Memoire: Central and Eastern European Perspectives
Maciej Gorny and Kornelia Konczal
Chapter 4. Ain't Nothing Special
Slawomir Kapralski
Chapter 5. Biographical and Collective Memory: Mutual Influences in Central and Eastern European Context
Kaja Kazmierska
PART III: EASTERN EUROPEAN MEMORIES FACING HISTORICAL CHANGE AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Chapter 6. The Path of Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe
Joanna Beata Michlic
Chapter 7. The Rise of an East European Community of Memory? On Lobbying for the Gulag Memory via Brussels
Lidia Zessin-Jurek
Chapter 8. Two Concepts of Victimhood: Property Restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989
Stanislaw Tyszka
Chapter 9. Shared Memory Culture? Nationalizing the 'Great Patriotic War' in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Chapter 10. History, Politics and Memory (Ukraine 1990s - 2000s)
Georgiy Kasianov
Chapter 11. Walking Memory through City Space in Sevastopol, Crimea
Judy Brown
PART IV: FOCI OF MEMORIES IN EASTERN EUROPE
Chapter 12. World War II in the Memory of Contemporary Polish Society
Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski
Chapter 13. Auschwitz and Katyn in Bondage of Politics: The Process of Shaping Memory in Communist Poland
Jacek Chrobaczynski and Piotr Trojanski
Chapter 14. Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German Lieu de Memoire? On the Asymmetry of Memories
Matthias Weber
Chapter 15. Remembering Collectivization in Bulgaria
Iana Iancheva
Chapter 16. Uses and Misuses of Memory: Dealing with Communist Past in Postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania
Claudia-Florentina Dobre
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Foreword
Jeffrey Olick
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special?
Malgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak
PART I: MEMORY DIALOGUES AND MONOLOGUES
Chapter 1. The Transformative Power of Memory
Aleida Assmann
Chapter 2. Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for 'Eastern Europe'
Andrzej Nowak
PART II: EUROPE AS A (UNIQUE) MEMORY FRAMEWORK?
Chapter 3. The (non-)Travelling Concept of Les Lieux de Memoire: Central and Eastern European Perspectives
Maciej Gorny and Kornelia Konczal
Chapter 4. Ain't Nothing Special
Slawomir Kapralski
Chapter 5. Biographical and Collective Memory: Mutual Influences in Central and Eastern European Context
Kaja Kazmierska
PART III: EASTERN EUROPEAN MEMORIES FACING HISTORICAL CHANGE AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Chapter 6. The Path of Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe
Joanna Beata Michlic
Chapter 7. The Rise of an East European Community of Memory? On Lobbying for the Gulag Memory via Brussels
Lidia Zessin-Jurek
Chapter 8. Two Concepts of Victimhood: Property Restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989
Stanislaw Tyszka
Chapter 9. Shared Memory Culture? Nationalizing the 'Great Patriotic War' in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Chapter 10. History, Politics and Memory (Ukraine 1990s - 2000s)
Georgiy Kasianov
Chapter 11. Walking Memory through City Space in Sevastopol, Crimea
Judy Brown
PART IV: FOCI OF MEMORIES IN EASTERN EUROPE
Chapter 12. World War II in the Memory of Contemporary Polish Society
Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski
Chapter 13. Auschwitz and Katyn in Bondage of Politics: The Process of Shaping Memory in Communist Poland
Jacek Chrobaczynski and Piotr Trojanski
Chapter 14. Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German Lieu de Memoire? On the Asymmetry of Memories
Matthias Weber
Chapter 15. Remembering Collectivization in Bulgaria
Iana Iancheva
Chapter 16. Uses and Misuses of Memory: Dealing with Communist Past in Postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania
Claudia-Florentina Dobre
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index