ISBN:
9789633860939
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 508 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Remembrance, history, and justice
DDC:
323.4/90947
Keywords:
Collective memory
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Memory Political aspects
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Democratization Social aspects
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Social justice
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Post-communism
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Fascism Social aspects
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Dictatorship Social aspects
;
Political science
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Collective memory
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Democratization
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Dictatorship
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Fascism
;
Memory
;
Post-communism
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Social justice
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Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
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Europe, Eastern Historiography
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Social aspects
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Europe, Eastern Historiography
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Political aspects
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Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-
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Europe, Eastern
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Europe, Eastern
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Europe, Eastern
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Electronic books
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Osteuropa
;
Politik
;
Demokratie
;
Geschichte 1989-
Abstract:
"The present book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The volume is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice. Subsequently, the contributors deal with trauma and the reconstitution of democratic communities, with the multiple publics of historical inquiry in the context of a shift from authoritarianism to pluralism, with the competing narratives resultant of the process of Aufarbeitung, and last but not least, with the juridical and investigative efforts to acknowledge and punish the crimes and abuses of the past. It brings together historiography with memory studies, intellectual and legal history, political analysis with theoretical insight. It integrates local and regional experiences with traumatic pasts into a global structure that offers the possibility of more general conclusions about the memory of a century touched by the 'reek of cruelty'. The authors situate the process of coming to terms with the past (communism, fascism, authoritarianism, failed democracies) in Eastern Europe (including the Western Balkans) and the former Soviet space within the larger context of discussing the memory and history of the post-war period. At the same time, the European overview is compared with other cases of post-authoritarian transitions such as those in Latin America, South Africa, Japan, and the Middle East. The result is a clustered big picture of practices of remembrance, reckoning, and historiographical reevaluation"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
"The present book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The volume is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice. Subsequently, the contributors deal with trauma and the reconstitution of democratic communities, with the multiple publics of historical inquiry in the context of a shift from authoritarianism to pluralism, with the competing narratives resultant of the process of Aufarbeitung, and last but not least, with the juridical and investigative efforts to acknowledge and punish the crimes and abuses of the past. It brings together historiography with memory studies, intellectual and legal history, political analysis with theoretical insight. It integrates local and regional experiences with traumatic pasts into a global structure that offers the possibility of more general conclusions about the memory of a century touched by the 'reek of cruelty'. The authors situate the process of coming to terms with the past (communism, fascism, authoritarianism, failed democracies) in Eastern Europe (including the Western Balkans) and the former Soviet space within the larger context of discussing the memory and history of the post-war period. At the same time, the European overview is compared with other cases of post-authoritarian transitions such as those in Latin America, South Africa, Japan, and the Middle East. The result is a clustered big picture of practices of remembrance, reckoning, and historiographical reevaluation"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Part One. Introduction
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European mass killing and European commemoration
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Part Two. Politics of memory and constructing democracy ; Why World War II memories remain so troubled in Europe and East Asia
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Post-authoritarian memories in Europe and Latin America
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Divided memory revisited : the Nazi past in West Germany and in postwar Palestine
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On the relationship between politics of memory and the state's rapport with the communist past
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Part Three. Histories and their publics ; Democracy, memory, and moral justice
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The difficulty of overcoming the communist legacy in public memory of the past : Poland, Ukraine, and Russia in comparative perspective
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Promotion of a usable past : official efforts to rewrite Russo-Soviet history, 2000-2013
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Germany's two processes of "coming to terms with the past" : failures, after all?
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Part Four. Searching for closure in democratizing societies ; Twenty-five years "after" : the ambivalence of settling accounts with communism : the Polish case
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The Romanian revolution in court : what narratives about 1989?
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Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague : failed success of a historical trial
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The South Africa transition : then and now
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Scholarship and public memory : the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (PCACDR)
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Moldova under the Soviet communist regime : history and memory
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Part Five. Competing narratives of troubled pasts ; Coming to terms with Catholic-Jewish relations in the Polish Catholic church
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After communism : identity and morality in the Baltic countries
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The Romanian communist past and the entrapment of polemics
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Past intransient/transiting past : remembering the victims and the representation of communist past in Bulgaria
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