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Zusatztext provides in-depth expertise on the politics of memory and commemoration in 17 countries Informationen zum Autor Michael Bernhard is Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Chair of Political Science at the University of Florida. Jan Kubik is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Rutgers University. Klappentext Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated (or not commemorated) by major political actors across the region. Zusammenfassung Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated (or not commemorated) by major political actors across the region. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables List of Pictures Acknowledgments Contributor list Introduction -- Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik Chapter 1: A Theory of the Politics of Memory - Jan Kubik and Michael Bernhard Part I: Fractured Memory Regimes Chapter 2: Revolutionary Road: 1956 and the Fracturing of Hungarian Historical Memory - Anna Seleny Chapter 3: Roundtable Discord: The Contested Legacy of 1989 in Poland - Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik Chapter 4: Romania Twenty Years after 1989: The Bizarre Echoes of a Contested Revolution - Grigore Pop-Eleches Chapter 5: I Ignored Your Revolution, but You Forgot My Anniversary: Party Competition in Slovakia and the Construction of Recollection - Carol Skalnik Leff, Kevin Deegan-Krause, and Sharon L. Wolchik Chapter 6: Remembering the Revolution: Contested Pasts in the Baltic Countries - Daina S. Eglitis and Laura Ardava Chapter 7: Memories of the Past and Visions of the Future: Remembering the Soviet Era and its End in Ukraine - Oxana Shevel Part II: Pillarized Memory Regimes Chapter 8: Remembering, Not Commemorating, 1989: The 20-Year Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic - Conor O'Dwyer Part III: Unified Memory Regimes Chapter 9: Making Room for November 9, 1989? The Fall of the Berlin Wall in German Politics and Memory - David Art Chapter 10: The Inescapable Past: The Politics of Memory in Postcommunist Bulgaria - Venelin I. Ganev Chapter 11: Lives of Others: Commemorating 1989 in the Former Yugoslavia - Aida A. Hozi? Part IV: Conclusions The Politics and Culture of Memory Regimes: A Comparative Analysis - Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik Appendices Bibliography Index ...
