Memory and change in Europe : : Eastern perspectives / / edited by Magorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak.

• Superior document: Studies in contemporary European history ; volume 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Pakier, Magorzata, 1979-; Wawrzyniak, Joanna, 1975-
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Berghahn Books,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in contemporary European history ; volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages) :; illustrations.

"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.

Table of Contents

Foreword / Jeffrey Olick -- Introduction: Memory and change in Eastern Europe : how special? / Malgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak -- Part I. Memory dialogues and monologues -- The transformative power of memory / Aleida Assmann -- Political correctness and memories constructed for "Eastern Europe" / Andrzej Nowak -- Part II. Eastern Europe as a (unique) memory framework? -- The (non-)travelling concept of les lieux de memoire : Central and Eastern European perspectives / Maciej Gorny and Kornelia Konczal -- Ain't nothing special / Slawomir Kapralski -- 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 -- The path of bringing the dark to light : memory of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe / Joanna Beata Michlic -- The rise of an East European community of memory? : on lobbying for the Gulag memory via Brussels / Lidia Zessin-Jurek -- Two concepts of victimhood : property restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 / Stanisaw Tyszka -- Shared memory culture? : nationalizing the "Great Patriotic War" in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- History, politics and memory (Ukraine, 1990s-2000s) / Georgiy Kasianov -- Walking memory through city space in Sevastopol, Crimea / Judy Brown -- Part IV. Foci of memories in Eastern Europe -- World War II in the memory of contemporary Polish society / Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski -- Auschwitz and Katyn in bondage of politics : the process of shaping memory in communist Poland / Jacek Chrobaczynski and Piotr Trojanski -- Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German lieu de memoire? : on the asymmetry of memories / Matthias Weber -- Remembering collectivization in Bulgaria / Iana Iancheva -- Uses and misuses of memory : dealing with communist past in postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania / Claudia-Florentina Dobre.