The Criminalisation of Communism in the European Political Space After the Cold War

ISBN-13: 9780367589028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Laure Neumayer

Opis

This book retraces the anti-communist mobilisations carried out by Central European representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and in the European Parliament since the early 1990s.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Transnational Dimension of Political Struggles over the Communist Past  Part I: Parliamentary Consecration of the Anti-Communist Grammar  1. Anti-Communist Memory Entrepreneurs in the European Assemblies  2. Putting Communism on the Agenda at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe  3. Extending the Anti-Communist Struggle to the European Parliament  Part II: Anti-Communist Mobilisations beyond Transnational Assemblies  4. The Limited Convertibility of Anti-Communist Parliamentary Resolutions  5. Remembrance as a Substitute for Justice: The ‘Europe for Citizens’ Programme  6. Advocating the Cause of the Victims of Communism, Conclusion

O autorze

Laure Neumayer is Assistant Professor of Political Science at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and Researcher at CESSP laboratory (CNRS), France. She has co-edited the book History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe – Memory Games (2013).