Occupation And Communism In Eastern European Museums

Author : Constantin Iordachi,Péter Apor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350103719

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Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums by Constantin Iordachi,Péter Apor Pdf

This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences, and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at regional and European level. Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums argues that museums have a huge influence on the image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they use a vast array of media tools, visual tactics and commercial strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the past and to shape the attitude of public opinion.

Author : Stephen M. Norris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253050311

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Museums of Communism by Stephen M. Norris Pdf

How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range of fields explore various museums and include nearly 90 photographs, a common denominator emerges: rather than focusing on artifacts and historical documents, these museums often privilege memories and stories. In doing so, the museums shift attention from experiences of guilt or collaboration to narratives of shared victimization under communist rule. As editor Stephen M. Norris demonstrates, these museums are often problematic at best and revisionist at worst. From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic museums of everyday life in Russia, the sites considered offer new ways of understanding the challenges of separating memory and myth.

Author : Constantin Iordachi,Péter Apor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350103726

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Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums by Constantin Iordachi,Péter Apor Pdf

This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences, and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at regional and European level. Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums argues that museums have a huge influence on the image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they use a vast array of media tools, visual tactics and commercial strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the past and to shape the attitude of public opinion.

Author : Oksana Sarkisova,Péter Apor
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155211430

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Past for the Eyes by Oksana Sarkisova,Péter Apor Pdf

How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.

Author : Zuzanna Bogumił,Joanna Wawrzyniak,Tim Buchen,Christian Ganzer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782382188

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The Enemy on Display by Zuzanna Bogumił,Joanna Wawrzyniak,Tim Buchen,Christian Ganzer Pdf

Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process.

Author : Stephen M. Norris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253052346

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Museums of Communism by Stephen M. Norris Pdf

How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range of fields explore various museums and include nearly 90 photographs, a common denominator emerges: rather than focusing on artifacts and historical documents, these museums often privilege memories and stories. In doing so, the museums shift attention from experiences of guilt or collaboration to narratives of shared victimization under communist rule. As editor Stephen M. Norris demonstrates, these museums are often problematic at best and revisionist at worst. From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic museums of everyday life in Russia, the sites considered offer new ways of understanding the challenges of separating memory and myth.

Author : Ljiljana Radonić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000712124

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The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe by Ljiljana Radonić Pdf

The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the “memory wars” in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash. The book focuses specifically on how “mnemonic warriors” employ the “Holocaust template” and the concept of genocide in tendentious ways to justify radical policies and externalize the culpability for their international isolation and worsening social and economic circumstances domestically. The chapters analyze three dimensions: 1) the competing narratives of the “universalization of the Holocaust” as the negative icon of our era, on the one hand, and the “double genocide” paradigm, on the other, which focuses on “our own” national suffering under – allegedly “equally” evil – Nazism and Communism; 2) the juxtaposition of post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia, reflected primarily in the struggle of the Baltic states and Ukraine to challenge Russian propaganda, a struggle that runs the risk of employing similarly distorting and propagandistic tropes; and 3) the post-Yugoslav rhetoric portraying one’s own group as “the new Jews” and one’s opponents in the wars of the 1990s as (akin to) “Nazis”. Surveying major battle sites in this “memory war”: memorial museums, monuments, film and the war over definitions and terminology in relevant public discourse, The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe will be of great interest to scholars of genocide, the Holocaust, historical memory and revisionism, and Eastern European Politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

Author : Jérôme Bazin,Pascal Dubourg Glatigny,Piotr Piotrowski
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789633866801

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Art beyond Borders by Jérôme Bazin,Pascal Dubourg Glatigny,Piotr Piotrowski Pdf

This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde tendencies relate with officially sanctioned socialist realism? The literature on the art of Eastern Europe provides a great deal of factual knowledge about a vast cultural space, but mostly through the prism of stereotypes and national preoccupations. By discussing artworks, studying the writings on art, observing artistic evolution and artists’ strategies, as well as the influence of political authorities, art dealers and art critics, the essays in Art beyond Borders compose a transnational history of arts in the Soviet satellite countries in the post war period.

Author : Corina Dobos,Marius Stan
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Communism
ISBN : 9789731997858

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History of Communism in Europe vol. 1 / 2010 by Corina Dobos,Marius Stan Pdf

Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191625275

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The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History by Dan Stone Pdf

The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the thirty-five chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by an acknowledged expert, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.

Author : Brian J. Graham,Peter Howard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 0754649229

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity by Brian J. Graham,Peter Howard Pdf

Heritage represents the meanings and representations conveyed in the present day upon artefacts, landscapes, mythologies, memories and traditions from the past. It is a key element in the shaping of identities, particularly in the context of increasingly multicultural societies. This Research Companion brings together an international team of authors to discuss the concepts, ideas and practices that inform the entwining of heritage and identity. They have assembled a wide geographical range of examples and interpret them through a number of disciplinary lenses that include geography, history, museum and heritage studies, archaeology, art history, history, anthropology and media studies. This outstanding companion offers scholars and graduate students a thoroughly up-to-date guide to current thinking and a comprehensive reference to this growing field.

Author : Cathleen M. Giustino,Catherine J. Plum,Alexander Vari
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857456700

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Socialist Escapes by Cathleen M. Giustino,Catherine J. Plum,Alexander Vari Pdf

During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The essays in this volume examine sites of socialist escapes, such as beaches, campgrounds, nightclubs, concerts, castles, cars, and soccer matches. The chapters explore the effectiveness of state efforts to engineer society through leisure, entertainment, and related forms of cultural programming and consumption. They lead to a deeper understanding of state–society relations in the Soviet sphere, where the state did not simply "dictate from above" and inhabitants had some opportunities to shape solidarities, identities, and meaning.

Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199697717

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Goodbye to All That? by Dan Stone Pdf

Shows how the anti-fascist consensus prevalent throughout Europe following World War II has been crumbling since the 1970s and how globalization, deregulation, the erosion of social-democratic welfare capitalism in the West, and the collapse of the Communist alternative in the East are leading to a social divisive, politically dangerous rise of fascism that could threaten the peace of Europe.

Author : James Koranyi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316517772

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Migrating Memories by James Koranyi Pdf

Charts the transnational story of Romanian Germans in modern Europe - their migration, their position as a minority, and their memories.

Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0813335345

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The Establishment Of Communist Regimes In Eastern Europe, 1944-1949 by Norman M. Naimark Pdf

The collaborative effort of scholars from Russia and the United States, this book reevaluates the history of postwar Eastern Europe from 1944 to 1949, incorporating information gleaned from newly opened archives in Eastern Europe. For nearly five decades, the countries of Yugoslavia, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet zone of Germany were forced to live behind the “iron curtain.” Though their experiences under communism differed in sometimes fundamental ways and lasted no longer than a single generation, these nations were characterized by systematic assaults on individual rights and social institutions that profoundly shaped the character of Eastern Europe today. The emergence of the former People's Democracies from behind the iron curtain has been a wrenching process, but, as this book demonstrates, the beginning of the communist era was equally as traumatic as its end.With the opening of the archives in Russia and Eastern Europe, the contributors have been able to get a much firmer grasp on Soviet policies in the region and on East European responses and initiatives, which in turn has yielded more satisfying answers to vexing questions about Soviet intentions in the region and the origins of the Cold War. Exploring these events from a new, better-informed perspective, the contributors have made a valuable contribution to the historiography of postwar Europe.