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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792430903321

Autore

Bucur Maria <1968->

Titolo

Heroes and victims : remembering war in twentieth-century Romania / / Maria Bucur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-53975-2

9786612539756

0-253-00391-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 352 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies

Disciplina

303.6/6094980904

Soggetti

Memorialization - Romania - History - 20th century

Memory - Social aspects - Romania

War and society - Romania

World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - Romania

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Romania

War memorials - Social aspects - Romania

Collective memory - Romania

Romania History, Military 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Death and Ritual: l Mourning and Commemorative Practices before 1914; 2. Mourning, Burying, and Remembering the War Dead: How Communities Coped with the Memory of Wartime Violence, 1918-1940; 3. Remembering the Great War through Autobiographical Narratives; 4. The Politics of Commemoration in Interwar Romania, 1919-1940: Dialogues and Conflicts; 5. War Commemorations and State Propaganda under Dictatorship: From the Crusade against Bolshevism to Ceausescu's Cult; 6. Everyone a Victim: Forging the Mythology of Anti-Communism Counter-Memory 7. The Dilemmas of Post-Memory in Post-Communist Romania; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of



radical political changes-from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930's, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucur's study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers,