Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums - Re-Visualizing the Recent Past

This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences, and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at regional and European level. argues that museums have a huge influence on the image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they use a vast array of media tools, visual tactics and commercial strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the past and to shape the attitude of public opinion.>

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• Authors: Peter Apor, Constantin Iordachi
• Assisted by: Péter Apor (Editor), Constantin Iordachi (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781350266421
• ISBN: 978-1-350-26642-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Eastern Europe, European History, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, ART / Museum Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General