Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives (Studies in Contemporary European History, 16)

Malgorzata Pakier; Joanna Wawrzyniak

ISBN 10: 1782389296 / ISBN 13: 9781782389293

Published by Berghahn Books, 2016

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Hardcover, xiv + 373 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This volume offers a comparative analysis of how historical memory is being constructed and renegotiated across post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. The essays explore how the profound societal transformations since 1989 have triggered a re-evaluation of contested pasts, particularly the dual legacies of Nazism and state socialism. The work examines the role of various mnemonic actors - from state institutions and museums to grassroots movements - in shaping new national identities and dealing with competing narratives of victimhood and collaboration.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives (Studies in Contemporary European History, 16)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782389296
• ISBN 13: 9781782389293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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).