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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154328903321

Autore

Bernhard

Titolo

Twenty years after communism : the politics of memory and commemoration

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-937516-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

943.0009/049

Soggetti

Collective memory - Political aspects - Europe, Eastern

Memorialization - Political aspects - Europe, Eastern

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Eastern Europe

Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989- Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West, the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy. In post-communist Eastern Europe, the way people remember state socialism is closely intertwined with the manner in which they envision historical justice. This book 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.