Remembering Communism

Author : Maria Todorova,Augusta Dimou,Stefan Troebst
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633860342

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REMEMBERING COMMUNISM by Maria Todorova,Augusta Dimou,Stefan Troebst Pdf

Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past.ÿ

Author : Marii͡a Nikolaeva Todorova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0979077265

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Remembering Communism by Marii͡a Nikolaeva Todorova Pdf

"Remembering Communism suggests a different kind of living memory, one that contrasts everyday life with ideological purpose, and recognizes how ideology functioned differently back then, and functions differently in memory today. By directly and explicitly focusing on how different genres of memory reflect different subjectivities, power relations, and contests, then and now, Remembering Communism provides an invaluable contribution to contemporary historical and sociological understanding." --Book Jacket.

Author : Marija Nikolaeva Todorova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:891827564

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Remembering Communism by Marija Nikolaeva Todorova Pdf

Author : Stephen M. Norris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Kathleen E. Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501717956

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Remembering Stalin's Victims by Kathleen E. Smith Pdf

In Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past. She also addresses the underlying question of how societies emerging from rep1;essive regimes reconcile themselves to their memories. Soviet leaders twice attempted to liberalize communist rule and both times their initiatives hinged on criticism of Stalin. During the years of the Khrushchev "thaw" and again during Gorbachev's glasnost, anti-Stalinism proved a unique catalyst for democratic mobilization. Under Gorbachev, dissatisfaction with half truths about past atrocities united citizens from all walks of life in the Memorial Society, an independent mass movement that eventually challenged the very notion of reform communism. Smith investigates why citizens risked confrontation with the Communist Party in order to promote recognition of the victims of Stalinism and recompense for their survivors. Efforts to acknowledge the bitter legacy of totalitarian rule, while originally supporting a stable statesociety reform coalition, ultimately provoked "radical" demands for openness about the past, official accountability, and institutional guarantees of human rights, Smith explains. The battle over the Soviet past, she suggests, not only illuminates the dynamic between elite and mass political actors during liberalization, but also reveals the scars that totalitarian rule has left on Russian society and the long-term obstacles to reform it has created.

Author : Attila Pók
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:1124263047

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Remembering and Forgetting Communism in Hungary by Attila Pók Pdf

Author : Dorothy Healey,Maurice Isserman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0252062787

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California Red by Dorothy Healey,Maurice Isserman Pdf

Author : Maria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857456434

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Post-communist Nostalgia by Maria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille Pdf

Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.

Author : Breda Luthar,Maruša Pušnik
Publisher : New Acdemia+ORM
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781955835190

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Remembering Utopia by Breda Luthar,Maruša Pušnik Pdf

Essays and photos that reveal and reflect on everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia, from tourism to television. Research about socialism and communism tends to focus on official aspects of power and dissent and on state politics, and presuppose a powerful state and a party with its official ideology on one side and repressed, manipulated, or collaborating citizens on the other side. This collection of essays instead helps uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia, such as leisure, popular culture, consumption, sociability and power, from 1945 until 1980, when Tito died. “A highly original project, which will cover a much neglected area, helping those who either did not make it to Yugoslavia in Tito’s time or were born too late to understand what life then and there was all about.” —Sabrina P. Ramet, Professor of Political Science at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway “This collection represents an original and highly useful work that helps fill a gap in the existing literature on socialist Yugoslavia and East-Central Europe in the Cold War. It also makes an important contribution to cultural history of the region in the second half of the twentieth century.” —Dejan Djokic, Lecturer in Serbian and Croatian Studies, The University of Nottingham “This book focuses on a cultural and social history of socialist Yugoslavia from the perspective of ‘ordinary’ people and by reconstructing their memories. The contributors, many of them belonging to a new generation of scholars from the former Yugoslavia, employ new approaches in order to make sense of the complicated past of this country.” —Ulf Brunnbauer, Department of History, Freie Universität Berlin

Author : Péter Apor,Sándor Horváth,James Mark
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783087259

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Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe by Péter Apor,Sándor Horváth,James Mark Pdf

The collection of essays in Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe addresses institutions that develop the concept of collaboration, and examines the function, social representation and history of secret police archives and institutes of national memory that create these histories of collaboration. The essays provide a comparative account of collaboration/participation across differing categories of collaborators and different social milieux throughout East-Central Europe. They also demonstrate how secret police files can be used to produce more subtle social and cultural histories of the socialist dictatorships. By interrogating the ways in which post-socialist cultures produce the idea of, and knowledge about, “collaborators,” the contributing authors provide a nuanced historical conception of “collaboration,” expanding the concept toward broader frameworks of cooperation and political participation to facilitate a better understanding of Eastern European communist regimes.

Author : Monica Ciobanu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351612784

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Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964 by Monica Ciobanu Pdf

This book examines how the process of remembering Stalinist repression in Romania has shifted from individual, family, and group representations of lived and witnessed experiences characteristic of the 1990s to more recent and state-sponsored expressions of historical remembrance through their incorporation in official commemorations, propaganda sites, and restorative and compensatory measures. Based on fieldwork dealing with Stalinist repression and memorialization, together with archival research on the secret police (Securitate), it adopts an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the resurfacing of particular themes. As such it draws on concepts from sociology, political science, and legal studies, related to memory, justice, redress, identity, accountability, and reconciliation. A study of competing narratives concerning the meaning of the past as part of a struggle over the legitimacy of the post-communist state, Repression, Resistance, and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944–1964 combines memory studies with a transitional justice approach that will appeal to scholars of sociology, heritage and memory studies, politics, and law.

Author : Julia Obertreis,Anke Stephan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015080719621

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Erinnerungen nach der Wende by Julia Obertreis,Anke Stephan Pdf

Author : Cristian Tileagă
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319973944

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Representing Communism After the Fall by Cristian Tileagă Pdf

This book explores the contribution of discursive psychology and discourse analysis to researching the relationship between history and collective memory. Analysing significant manifestations of the moral vocabulary of the Romanian transition from communism to democracy, the author demonstrates how discursive psychology can be used to understand some of the enduring and persistent dilemmas around the legacy of communism. This book argues that an understanding of language as an action-oriented, world-building resource can fill an important gap in the theorizing of public controversies over individual and collective meaning of the recent (communist) past. The author posits that discursive social psychology can serve as an intellectual and empirical bridge that can overcome several of the difficulties faced by researchers working in transitional justice studies and cognate fields. This reflective book will appeal to students and scholars of transitional justice, discursive psychology, memory studies, and the sociology of change.

Author : Jelena Subotić
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501742415

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Yellow Star, Red Star by Jelena Subotić Pdf

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism. Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary "ontological insecurities"—insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As Subotić concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world.

Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu,Bogdan Iacob
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633860922

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Remembrance, History, and Justice by Vladimir Tismaneanu,Bogdan Iacob Pdf

The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, creating collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that have emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts, such as Germany, Romania, Russia and others.