Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives

Published by Berghahn Books 2015

Memory and Change in Europe

Eastern Perspectives

Edited by: Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak

In the series Studies in Contemporary European History

Volume 16 in the series Contemporary European History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389309

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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.

Author / Editor information

Małgorzata 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 Stråth, 2010).

Joanna Wawrzyniak is Head of the Social Memory Laboratory of the Insitute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. Her recent publications are Veterans, Victims, and Memory: The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland (2015) and The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums (co-authored with Zuzanna Bogumił et al., 2015).

Małgorzata 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 Stråth, 2010).

Reviews

“[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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Foreword Jeffrey K. Olick Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special? Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Memory Dialogues and Monologues
Chapter 1 The Transformative Power of Memory Aleida Assmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2 Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for ‘Eastern Europe’ Andrzej Nowak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Part II Eastern Europe as a (Unique) Memory Framework?
Chapter 3 The (non-)Travelling Concept of Les Lieux de Mémoire: Central and Eastern European Perspectives Maciej Górny and Kornelia Kończal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 4 Ain’t Nothing Special Sławomir Kapralski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 5 Biographical and Collective Memory: Mutual Influences in Central and Eastern European Context Kaja Kaźmierska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter 7 The Rise of an East European Community of Memory? On Lobbying for the Gulag Memory via Brussels Lidia Zessin-Jurek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 8 Two Concepts of Victimhood: Property Restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 Stanisław Tyszka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Chapter 9 Shared Memory Culture? Nationalizing the ‘Great Patriotic War’ in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Tatiana Zhurzhenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 10 History, Politics and Memory (Ukraine 1990s – 2000s) Georgiy Kasianov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Chapter 11 Walking Memory through City Space in Sevastopol, Crimea Judy Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Part IV Foci of Memories in Eastern Europe
Chapter 12 The Second World War in the Memory of Contemporary Polish Society Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Chapter 13 Auschwitz and Katyn in Political Bondage: The Process of Shaping Memory in Communist Poland Jacek Chrobaczyński and Piotr Trojański Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Chapter 14 Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German Lieu de Mémoire? On the Asymmetry of Memories Matthias Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Chapter 15 Remembering Collectivization in Bulgaria Yana Yancheva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Chapter 16 Uses and Misuses of Memory: Dealing with the Communist Past in Postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania Claudia-Florentina Dobre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 388
Keywords: History (General); Sociology; Memory Studies

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Published: November 1, 2015
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