Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe The Ghosts of Others

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe found themselves living in cities with traces of the foreign cultures of former inhabitants. This book explores this increasingly important phenomenon to show how other pasts are incorporated into local cultural memory.

Info autore

Uilleam Blacker is a lecturer in comparative Russian and East European culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Riassunto

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe found themselves living in cities with traces of the foreign cultures of former inhabitants. This book explores this increasingly important phenomenon to show how other pasts are incorporated into local cultural memory.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Uilleam Blacker, Uilleam (University of Oxford Blacker, Blacker Uilleam
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.03.2021
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni
• EAN: 9780367785628
• ISBN: 978-0-367-78562-8
• Numero di pagine: 242
• Serie: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Categorie: Ethnic Studies, Eastern Europe, Russia, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Human Geography, History and Archaeology, USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Russia / General, Eastern European Studies, Collective remembrance, Cultural Identity Formation, urban space transformation, postwar urban memory, cosmopolitan memory theory, memory politics in postwar cities