Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism

ISBN-13: 9780367591977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 286 str.

Agnieszka Mrozik; Stanislav Holubec

Opis

This volume deals with the historical memory of the communist movement in Central and Eastern Europe when it was in power, with the memory of communism as a part of post-1989 left identity, and with state-socialist and post-socialist memorial landscapes.

Spis treści

Introduction: Historical Memory of European Communisms Before and After 1989  Stanislav Holubec and Agnieszka Mrozik  Part I: Memory of the Left in Post-Socialist Europe  1. "Of the Past Let Us Make a Clean Slate": The Lack of a Left-Wing Narrative and the Failure of the Hungarian Left  Csilla Kiss  2. Communist Successors and Narratives of the Past: Party Factions in the German PDS and the Russian CPRF, 1990–2005  Thorsten Holzhauser and Antony Kalashnikov  3. The Memory and Identity of the Western European Left in the Light of European Integration: View from Inside  Walter Baier  Part II: Memorial Landscapes in Central and Eastern Europe  4. Dissonant Heritage: Soviet Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe  Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik  5. Lenin, Marx and Local Heroes: Socialist and Post-Socialist Memorial Landscapes in Eastern Germany and Czechoslovakia — The Case Study of Jena and Hradec Králové  Stanislav Holubec  6. The Politics of Oblivion and the Practices of Remembrance: Repression, Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Russia  Ekaterina V. Klimenko  Part III: Communist Politics of Memory Before 1989  7. What Happened in 1980? Memory Forging and the Official Story of the Martial Law in the Polish United Workers’ Party  Jakub Szumski  8. "We Must Reconstruct Our Own Past": 1960s Polish Communist Women’s Memoirs —Constructing the (Gender) History of the Polish Left  Agnieszka Mrozik  9. Romanian Communists Under Gheorghiu-Dej: Legitimation Before 1965 and Its Memory as Opposition to Ceauşescu  Monica Ciobanu  10. Constructing New Friends and Enemies: Rewriting Czechoslovak History After the Communist Takeover  Darina Volf  11. Constructing Memoirs of the October Revolution in the 1920s  Oksana Klymenko

O autorze

Agnieszka Mrozik is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Stanislav Holubec is Associate Professor at the University of České Budějovice and the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.