ISBN:
9783031046605
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 296 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
1st ed. 2022
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Geschichte anderer geographischer Gruppierungen und Regionen
;
Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie
;
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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HISTORY / Historiography
;
Historiography
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Mündlich überlieferte Geschichte, Oral History
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Oral history
;
Regional & national history
Abstract:
This book looks at the memory of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Bulgaria: its "official" memory, constructed by institutions, its public memory, molded by media, rituals, books and films and the urban environment, and the everyday or 'vernacular' memory. It investigates how the recent past is remembered and the circumstances upon which this memory is conditioned - how is communism/socialism construed as a public recollection? Do these processes differ in the distinct post-communist countries? The book's first part traces the institutional and political dimensions of coping with the communist past and the second part concentrates on personal reminiscences and vernacular memory. The book will be of interest for researchers and students in the fields of memory studies, Central and East European studies, oral history and contemporary history, as well as for specialists at institutions of memory and memory activists and organisations
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Memory Archipelago Part One. Politics of memory and cultures of memory Chapter 1. The new 'grand narrative': coping with the past Chapter 2. Politics of justice: the transitional justice Chapter 3. Politics of recognition Part Two. Narratives of memory and mnemonic communities Chapter 4. 'Thorns in the spirit': traumatic narratives Chapter 5. 'Sorrow, almost hope': nostalgic narratives Conclusion: Is there hope for memory?
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