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The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the
"memory wars" in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of
history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash. The book
focuses specifically on how "mnemonic warriors" employ the
"Holocaust template" and the concept of genocide in tendentious
ways to justify radical policies and externalize the culpability
for their international isolation and worsening social and economic
circumstances domestically. The chapters analyze three dimensions:
1) the competing narratives of the "universalization of the
Holocaust" as the negative icon of our era, on the one hand, and
the "double genocide" paradigm, on the other, which focuses on "our
own" national suffering under - allegedly "equally" evil - Nazism
and Communism; 2) the juxtaposition of post-Communist Eastern
Europe and Russia, reflected primarily in the struggle of the
Baltic states and Ukraine to challenge Russian propaganda, a
struggle that runs the risk of employing similarly distorting and
propagandistic tropes; and 3) the post-Yugoslav rhetoric portraying
one's own group as "the new Jews" and one's opponents in the wars
of the 1990s as (akin to) "Nazis". Surveying major battle sites in
this "memory war": memorial museums, monuments, film and the war
over definitions and terminology in relevant public discourse, The
Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe will be of great
interest to scholars of genocide, the Holocaust, historical memory
and revisionism, and Eastern European Politics. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide
Research.
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