Occupation and communism in Eastern European museums : re-visualizing the recent past /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Bloomsbury (Firm)
Other Authors: Iordachi, Constantin (Editor), Apor, Péter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Studying museums of communism : recent trends and perspectives / Constantin Iordachi and Péter Apor
  • 'Remembering' versus 'condemning' communism : politics of history and 'wars on memory' in East European museums / Constantin Iordachi
  • From museum as memorial to memory museum : on the transformation of the Estonian Museum of Occupations / Ene Kõresaar and Kirsti Jõesalu
  • Institutional narratives of communism in Slovakia : substituting the non-existence of the Official Museum of Communism / Martin Kovanic
  • Tackling the past in Poland : museifying World War II / Maud Guichard-Marneur
  • (Re)constructing the past : museums in post-communist Croatia / Vjeran Pavlakovič
  • The "display" of communism in Germany / Irmgard Zündorf
  • Remembering the GDR / Martin Sabrow
  • Discussing the past, or airing the depots : refashioning exhibitions of socialism in Serbia / Olga Manojlović-Pintar and Aleksandar Ignjatović
  • Life and death of the communist object in post-communist Romanian museums / Simina Bădică
  • Boundary objects of communism : assembling the Soviet past in museums and public spaces / Eglė Rindzevičiutė
  • Canons of civilization and experiments of spectacle : exhibiting contemporary history in Hungary / Péter Apor
  • Museums of socialism from below : local representations of the socialist past in contemporary Bulgaria / Rossitza Guentcheva
  • Conclusion. Memorializing recent 'pasts' in Eastern Europe : comparative perspectives / Constantin Iordachi and Péter Apor.