Memory Laws, Memory Wars - The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia

A major contribution to our understanding of present-day historical consciousness through a study of memory laws across Europe.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The rise of memory and the origins of memory laws; 2. Memory laws in Western Europe; 3. Memory laws in Eastern Europe; 4. Memory laws in Ukraine; 5. Memory laws in Yeltsin's Russia; 6. Memory laws in Putin's Russia; Conclusion.

About the author

Nikolay Koposov is a Russian historian currently teaching at Emory University, Atlanta, having previously worked at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and The Johns Hopkins University. He was Founding Dean of Russia's first and only (to date) liberal arts college – Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a joint venture of Saint-Petersburg State University and Bard College, New York. His research deals with various aspects of modern historiography and historical memory, from Early Modern France to post-Soviet Russia. His book How Historians Think (2001) was translated into French by Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales as De l'imagination historique (2009).

Summary

Examines the development of memory laws in Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and the contrasting purposes they serve in the identity politics of the East and West. This is a major contribution to the history of memory and ongoing conflicts over the legacy of the Second World War, Nazism, and communism.

Product details

• Authors: N. E. Koposov, Nikolay Koposov, Nikolay (Emory University Koposov
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781108419727
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41972-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, Eastern Europe, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Legal History