The Politics of History and Counter-Memory
War, Violence, and Trauma in Europe’s East
Osteuropa 6/2008
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2008 [= Osteuropa 6/2008]
456 pages, 35 figures
Price: 24,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1494-7
Deutsche Fassung
Contents
- Editorial
Ambivalences of Memory - György Konrád
Tumult - Karl Schlögel
Places and Layers of Memory
Reflections on the Eastern Part of Europes - Helmut König
Remembering and Forgetting
On Their Use and Abuse in Politics - Harald Welzer, Claudia Lenz
Grandpa in Europe
Findings from Comparative Transgenerational Transmission Research - Boris Dubin
Remembrance as a State Event
History and Power in Russia - Stefan Troebst
1945
A(n) (All-)European Place of Memory? - National Views of History
The 20th Century and the “War of Memories” Countries
- Peter Oliver Loew
Heroes or Victims?
Memory Cultures in Poland Since 1989 - Christiane Brenner
The “Totalitarian Era”?
Democracy and Dictatorship in the Czech Republic’s Politics of Memory - Carmen Scheide
Gaps in Memory
Baltic Experiences and Europe’s Memory - Karsten Brüggemann
Monuments of Resentment
Estonia and the Wars of the 20th Century - Katja Wezel
Occupation or Liberation?
Latvian and Russian Views of History in Conflict - Alvydas Nikžentaitis
The Epochs of Dictatorships
The Competition of Memories in Lithuania - Wilfried Jilge
“Nationalist-Ukrainian Struggle for Liberation”
The Re-evaluation of the Second World War in Ukraine - Imke Hansen
The Political Planning of Memory
The Construction of History in Belarus between Conflict and Consensus Memorial Sites, Museums, School Books
- Andrii Portnov
Plurality of Memory
Monuments and the Politics of History in Ukraine - Delphine Bechtel
From Lemberg to L’viv
Conflict over Memory in a City on the Border - Astrid Sahm
Under the Spell of War
Memorials and Memory Culture in Belarus - Leanid Levin
”The Landscape is Co-Author of My Memorial Sites…“ - Elena Temper
Conflicts over Kurapaty
Divided Memory in Post-Soviet Belarus - Valters Nollendorfs
50 Years and Three Kilometres
Gaps in the Latvian Landscape of Memory - Krzysztof Ruchniewicz
A History Lesson
The Second World War in Polish Textbooks - Elfie Siegl
Graveside Reconciliation
The German War Graves Commission in Russia - Xavier Galmiche
Models and Modalities of Memory
Toužim: The Duel History of a Town in Bohemia Places of Remembrance in Music and Literature
- Dorota Szwarcman
And God Hid His Face”
Polish Compositions about the War and Violence - Natascha Drubek-Meyer
The Victim and the “Cremator”
The “Jewish Theme” in Czech Literature and Film - Jūratė Landsbergytė
“Lord, Your Country is Burning!”
The Baltic: Resistance from the Spirit of Music - Claudia Sinnig
Clio, the Muse of History
Lithuanian verse under the Soviet and German occupations, 1939–1942 - Cornelius Hasselblatt
Distance, Resentment, Grotesque
Memory Culture in Estonian Prose