LEADER 03075 am 22003973u 450 001 9910227341603321 005 20190221 010 $a952-222-904-0 024 7 $a10.21435/sfh.22 035 $a(CKB)4100000000883917 035 $a(OAPEN)638231 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000883917 100 $a20190221d|||| uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 200 10$aContinued Violence and Troublesome Pasts: Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War 210 $aHelsinki, Finland$cFinnish Literature Society / SKS$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (152) 311 $a952-222-857-5 330 $aIn most European countries, the horrific legacy of 1939?45 has made it quite difficult to remember the war with much glory. Despite the Anglo-American memory narrative of saving democracy from totalitarianism and the Soviet epic of the Great Patriotic War, the fundamental experience of war for so many Europeans was that of immense personal losses and often meaningless hardships. The anthology at hand focuses on these histories between the victors: on the cases of Hungary, Estonia, Poland, Austria, Finland, and Germany and on the respective, often gendered experiences of defeat. The book?s chapters underline the asynchronous transition to peace in individual experiences, when compared to the smooth timelines of national and international historiographies. Furthermore, it is important to note that instead of a linear chronology, both personal and collective histories tend to return back to the moments of violence and loss, thus forming continuous cycles of remembrance and forgetting. Several of the authors also pay specific attention to the constructed and contested nature of national histories in these cycles. The role of these ?in-between? countries ? and even more their peoples? multifaceted experiences ? will add to the widening European history of the aftermath, thereby challenging the conventional dichotomies and periodisations. In the aftermath of the seventieth anniversary of 1945, it is still too early to regard the post-war period as mere history, the memory politics and rhetoric of the Second World War and its aftermath are again being used and abused to serve contemporary power politics in Europe 517 $aContinued Violence and Troublesome Pasts 517 $aStudia Fennica Historica vol. 22 606 $aPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000$2bicssc 606 $aSecond World War$2bicssc 606 $aSociety & social sciences$2bicssc 606 $aViolence in society$2bicssc 606 $aSexual abuse & harassment$2bicssc 615 7$aPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 615 7$aSecond World War 615 7$aSociety & social sciences 615 7$aViolence in society 615 7$aSexual abuse & harassment 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910227341603321 996 $aContinued Violence and Troublesome Pasts: Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War$92091676 997 $aUNINA