03906nam 2200697un 450 991097327150332120251116175614.01-135-78968-11-135-78969-X1-138-99223-21-280-19529-00-203-22035-810.4324/9780203220351 (CKB)1000000000250610(EBL)171824(OCoLC)437079135(SSID)ssj0000298670(PQKBManifestationID)11278307(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298670(PQKBWorkID)10363646(PQKB)10475446(MiAaPQ)EBC171824(Au-PeEL)EBL171824(CaPaEBR)ebr10100898(CaONFJC)MIL19529(OCoLC)958104028(EXLCZ)99100000000025061020020827d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHistorical injustice and democratic transition in eastern Asia and northern Europe ghosts at the table of democracy /edited by Kenneth Christie and Robert CribbLondon RoutledgeCurzon20021 online resource (224 p.)Politics/HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-203-29608-7 0-7007-1599-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; HISTORICAL INJUSTICE AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN EASTERN ASIA ANDNORTHERN EUROPE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: remembering, forgetting and historical in justice; 2 Victim or victimizer: the reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution through personal stories; 3 The aftermath of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia; 4 Forgetting what it was to remember the Indonesian killings of 1965-6; 5 Remembering and forgetting at 'Lubang Buaya': the 'coup' of1965 in contemporary Indonesian historical perception and public commemoration6 Causes and consequences of historical amnesia: the annexationof the Baltic states in post-Soviet Russian popular history and political memory7 Coming to terms with the past: memories of displacement and resistance in the Baltic states; 8 Transmitted experience: individual testimonies and collective memories of the Nanjing Atrocity; 9 Thirty thousand bullets: remembering political repression in Mongolia; 10 Coping with the Civil War of 1918 in twenty-first century Finland; 11 Civil War victims and the ways of mourning in Finland in 191812 Remembering the Finnish Civil War: confronting a harrowing pastIndexThe memory of past atrocity lingers like a ghost at the table of democracy. Injustices carried out in the past - from massacres and murder to repression and detention - embitter societies and distort their structures so that the process of establishing and running a democracy carries an extra burden. This volume examines societies at various stages of dealing with the memory of the past, from China, Mongolia, Indonesia and the Baltic States, where bitter memories of death and persecution still intrude, to Finland, where the civil war of 1918 has finally been accepted as a distant national tragDemocracyEast AsiaDemocracyEurope, NorthernEurope, NorthernPolitics and governmentEast AsiaPolitics and governmentDemocracyDemocracy321.809Christie Kenneth662397Cribb R. B720387MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973271503321Historical injustice and democratic transition in eastern Asia and northern Europe4482698UNINA