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Zusatztext "[This volume] addresses memory and cultural transformations from an eastern point of view? [and] illuminates very different aspects of the problems Eastern European researchers face identifying national crossroads of diverging memories and the necessity of coming to terms with a surfeit of memories which had not hitherto been publicly articulated or acknowledged." · European History Quarterly "The various contributions to this book highlight why the joint enterprise of creating and reconciling memories between Eastern and Western Europe remains a complex undertaking that escapes straightforward answers. Yet the search for answers is valuable and stimulating. The reader is invited to travel to locales which! while not terrae incognitae! reveal themselves in new and fascinating ways." · Helga Welsh ! Wake Forest University Informationen zum Autor Malgorzata 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 Bogumil et al., 2015). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. This volume offers a reflection on memory in an Eastern European historical context, one that can be measured against and applied to historical experience in other parts of Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword Jeffrey Olick Acknowledgments Introduction: Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special? Malgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak PART I: MEMORY DIALOGUES AND MONOLOGUES Chapter 1. The Transformative Power of Memory Aleida Assmann Chapter 2. Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for 'Eastern Europe' Andrzej Nowak PART II: EUROPE AS A (UNIQUE) MEMORY FRAMEWORK? Chapter 3. The (non-)Travelling Concept of Les Lieux de Mémoire: Central and Eastern European Perspectives Maciej Górny and Kornelia Konczal Chapter 4. Ain't Nothing Special Slawomir Kapralski Chapter 5. 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 Chapter 6. The Path of Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Ho...
