Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781032138930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 114 str.

Viktorija L. a. Čeginskas; Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus; Nina Sääskilahti

Opis

This book provides novel and critical insights into the complex relationship between politics of memory and oblivion in European countries in the 20^th and early 21^st centuries as well as the cultural, political and institutional backgrounds against which they function.

Spis treści

Introduction: Politics of memory and oblivion 1. Legacies of an imperial past in a small nation: patterns of postcolonialism in Belgium 2. Politics of fire: the commemorative torch rally 612 of the Finnish radical right 3. The political uses of the past in modern Russia: the images of the October revolution 1917 in the politics of memory of Russian parties 4. Highlights of national history? Constitutional memory and the preambles of post- communist constitutions 5. Reconstructing the past in a state- mandated historical memory institute: the case of Albania 6. The construction and deconstruction of national myths: a study of the transformation of Finnish history textbook narratives after World War II