Memory and Change in Europe : : Eastern Perspectives / / ed. by Małgorzata Pakier, Joanna Wawrzyniak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Assmann, Aleida,; Brown, Judy,; Chrobaczyński, Jacek,; Dobre, Claudia-Florentina,; Górny, Maciej,; Kapralski, Sławomir,; Kasianov, Georgiy,; Kaźmierska, Kaja,; Kończal, Kornelia,; Kwiatkowski, Piotr Tadeusz,; Michlic, Joanna Beata,; Nowak, Andrzej,; Olick, Jeffrey K.,; Pakier, Małgorzata,; Trojański, Piotr,; Tyszka, Stanisław,; Wawrzyniak, Joanna,; Weber, Matthias,; Yancheva, Yana,; Zessin-Jurek, Lidia,; Zhurzhenko, Tatiana,
• HerausgeberIn: Pakier, Małgorzata,; Wawrzyniak, Joanna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary European History ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special? -- Part I Memory Dialogues and Monologues -- Chapter 1 The Transformative Power of Memory -- Chapter 2 Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for ‘Eastern Europe’ -- 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 -- Chapter 4 Ain’t Nothing Special -- Chapter 5 Biographical and Collective Memory: Mutual Influences in Central and Eastern European Context -- 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 -- Chapter 7 The Rise of an East European Community of Memory? On Lobbying for the Gulag Memory via Brussels -- Chapter 8 Two Concepts of Victimhood: Property Restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 -- Chapter 9 Shared Memory Culture? Nationalizing the ‘Great Patriotic War’ in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands -- Chapter 10 History, Politics and Memory (Ukraine 1990s – 2000s) -- Chapter 11 Walking Memory through City Space in Sevastopol, Crimea -- Part IV Foci of Memories in Eastern Europe -- Chapter 12 The Second World War in the Memory of Contemporary Polish Society -- Chapter 13 Auschwitz and Katyn in Political Bondage: The Process of Shaping Memory in Communist Poland -- Chapter 14 Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German Lieu de Mémoire? On the Asymmetry of Memories -- Chapter 15 Remembering Collectivization in Bulgaria -- Chapter 16 Uses and Misuses of Memory: Dealing with the Communist Past in Postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania -- Bibliography -- Index