Memory and Totalitarianism

ISBN-13: 9781412804653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 198 str.

Luisa Passerini; Richard Crownshaw

Opis

Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. Th e invasion of Moscow's streets by Russian people rejecting an attempted coup d'etat was the culmination of a process that had been initiated years before and raised crucial questions: To what extent can these events be considered the end of an era stretching from World War I to the 1980s, when Europe experienced many forms of dictatorship? To what extent can the various forms of dictatorship Europe experienced in the twentieth century be grouped together? Can any sort of affi nity be established between them?

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, RICHARD CROWNSHAW AND SELMA LEYDESDORFF, List of Contributors, 1. Introduction, 2. Antagonistic Memories: The Post-War Survival and Alienation of ]ews and Germans, 3. Where Were You on 17 June? A Niche in Memory, 4. A German Generation of Reconstruction: The Children of the Weimar Republic in the GDR, 5. After Glasnost: Oral History in the Soviet Union, 6. The Gulag in Memory, 7. The Abduction of lmre Nagy and his Group: The 'Rashomon' Effect, 8. Mujeres Libres: The Preservation of Memory under the Politics of Repression in Spain, 9. A Shattered Silence: The Life Stories of Survivors of thej ewish Proletariat of Amsterdam, 10. Don't Forget: Fragments of a Negative Tradition

O autorze

Luisa Passerini