Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies /

Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies /

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"The present book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understan...

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Other Authors: Iacob, Bogdan (Editor), Tismaneanu, Vladimir (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Eastern Europe.
Europe de l'Est > Politique et gouvernement > 1989-
Europe de l'Est > Historiographie > Aspect social.
Europe de l'Est > Historiographie > Aspect politique.
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989-
Europe, Eastern > Historiography > Social aspects.
Europe, Eastern > Historiography > Political aspects.
Social justice.
Post-communism.
Politics and government.
Memory > Political aspects.
Historiography > Social aspects.
Historiography > Political aspects.
Collective memory.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Memoire collective > Europe de l'Est.
Democratisation > Aspect social > Europe de l'Est.
Justice sociale > Europe de l'Est.
Postcommunisme > Europe de l'Est.
Fascisme > Aspect social > Europe de l'Est.
Dictature > Aspect social > Europe de l'Est.
Collective memory > Europe, Eastern.
Memory > Political aspects > Europe, Eastern.
Democratization > Social aspects > Europe, Eastern.
Social justice > Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.
Fascism > Social aspects > Europe, Eastern.
Dictatorship > Social aspects > Europe, Eastern.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob
  • Part One. Politics of Memory and Constructing Democracy
  • European mass killing and European commemoration / Timothy Snyder
  • Why World War II memories remain so troubled in Europe and East Asia / Daniel Chirot
  • Post-authoritarian memories in Europe and Latin America / Eusebio Mujal-León and Eric Langenbacher
  • Divided memory revisited : the Nazi past in West Germany and in postwar Palestine / Jeffrey Herf
  • On the relationship between politics of memory and the state's rapport with the communist past / Alexandru Gussi
  • Part Two. Histories and Their Publics
  • Democracy, memory, and moral justice / Vladimir Tismaneanu
  • The difficulty of overcoming the communist legacy in public memory of the past : Poland, Ukraine, and Russia in comparative perspective / Mark Kramer
  • Promotion of a usable past : official efforts to rewrite Russo-Soviet history, 2000-2013 / David Brandenberger
  • Germany's two processes of "coming to terms with the past" : failures, after all? / Jan-Werner Müller
  • Part Three. Searching for Closure in Democratizing Societies
  • Twenty-five years "after" : the ambivalence of settling accounts with communism : the Polish case / Andrzej Paczkowski
  • The Romanian revolution in court : what narratives about 1989? / Raluca Grosescu and Raluca Ursachi
  • Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague : failed success of a historical trial / Vladimir Petrović
  • The South Africa transition : then and now / Charles Villa-Vicencio
  • Scholarship and public memory : the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (PCACDR) / Cristian Vasile
  • Moldova under the Soviet communist regime : history and memory / Igor Caşu
  • Part Four. Competing Narratives of Troubled Pasts
  • Coming to terms with Catholic-Jewish relations in the Polish Catholic church / John Connelly
  • After communism : identity and morality in the Baltic countries / Leonidas Donskis
  • The Romanian communist past and the entrapment of polemics / Bogdan C. Iacob
  • Past intransient/transiting past : remembering the victims and the representation of communist past in Bulgaria / Nikolai Vukov.

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