Holocaust/genocide Template in Eastern Europe

List of contents

Introduction: The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe Ljiljana Radonić 1. Limits of Universalization: The European Memory Sites of Genocide Éva Kovács 2. From “Double Genocide” to “the New Jews”: Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence in Post-Communist Memorial Museums Ljiljana Radonić 3. A Baltic Struggle for a “European Memory”: The Militant Mnemopolitics of The Soviet Story Maria Mälksoo 4. Genocide, Holodomor and Holocaust Discourse as Echo of Historical Injury and as Rhetorical Radicalization in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict of 2013–18 Nicolas Dreyer 5. Talking Past Each Other: Language and Post-World War II Killings in Slovenia Gregor Kranjc 6. Defending the “Good Name” of the Polish Nation: Politics of History as a Battlefield in Poland, 2015–18 Jörg Hackmann 7. Liberty Square, Budapest: How Hungary Won the Second World War István Rév

About the author

Ljiljana Radonić heads an ERC project on “Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History). Her habilitation dealt with the “World War II in Post-Communist Memorial Museums”. She teaches at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Summary

The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the "memory wars" in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash.

Product details

• Authors: Ljiljana Radonic, Ljiljana (University of Vienna Radonic
• Assisted by: Ljiljana Radonić (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780367404949
• ISBN: 978-0-367-40494-9
• No. of pages: 150
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Second World War, The Holocaust, Politics and government, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Regional Geography, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater