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Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism (Paperback)
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Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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Every political movement creates its own historical memory. The
communist movement, though originally oriented towards the future,
was no exception: The theory of human history constitutes a
substantial part of Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels's writings,
and the movement inspired by them very soon developed its own
strong historical identity, combining the Marxist theory of history
with the movement's victorious milestones such as the October
Revolution and later the Great Patriotic War, which served as
communist legitimization myths throughout almost the entire
twentieth century. During the Stalinist period, however, the
movements history became strongly reinterpreted to suit Joseph
Stalin's political goals. After 1956, this reinterpretation lost
most of its legitimating power and instead began to be a burden.
The (unwanted) memory of Stalinism and subsequent examples of
violence (the Gulag, Katyn, the 1956 Budapest uprising and the 1968
Prague Spring) contributed to the crisis of Eastern European state
socialism in the late 1980s and led to attempts at reformulating or
even rejecting communist self-identity. This book's first section
analyzes the post-1989 memory of communism and state socialism and
the self-identity of the Eastern and Western European left. The
second section examines the state-socialist and post-socialist
memorial landscapes in the former German Democratic Republic,
Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and
Russia. The final section concentrates on the narratives the
movement established, when in power, about its own past, with the
examples of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia.
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