Twenty years after communism : the politics of memory and commemoration /

Remembering the past, especially as collectivity, is a political process, thus the politics of memory and commemoration is an integral part of the establishment of new political regimes, new identities and new principles of political legitimacy. This volume is about the explosion of the politics of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bernhard, Michael H. (Editor), Kubik, Jan, 1953- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Collective memory > Political aspects > Europe, Eastern > Case studies. Memorialization > Political aspects > Europe, Eastern > Case studies. Post-communism > Europe, Eastern > Case studies. Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989- > Case studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism. HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative.

Table of Contents:

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.