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Twenty Years After Communism (Paperback)
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While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the
West, the intervening years have shown that the former Soviet Bloc
has a more complicated view of its legacy. In post-communist
Eastern Europe, the way people remember state socialism is closely
intertwined with the manner in which they envision historical
justice. Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the
explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state
socialism in Eastern Europe, and it takes a comparative look at the
ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated (or not
commemorated) by major political actors across the region. The book
is built on three premises. The first is that political actors
always strive to come to terms with the history of their
communities in order to generate a sense of order in their personal
and collective lives. Second, new leaders sometimes find it
advantageous to mete out justice on the politicians of abolished
regimes, and whether and how they do so depends heavily on their
interpretation and assessment of the collective past. Finally,
remembering the past, particularly collectively, is always a
political process, thus the politics of memory and commemoration
needs to be studied as an integral part of the establishment of new
collective identities and new principles of political legitimacy.
Each chapter takes a detailed look at the commemorative ceremony of
a different country of the former Soviet Bloc. Collectively the
book looks at patterns of extrication from state socialism,
patterns of ethnic and class conflict, the strategies of communist
successor parties, and the cultural traditions of a given country
that influence the way official collective memory is constructed.
Twenty Years After Communism develops a new analytical and
explanatory framework that helps readers to understand the utility
of historical memory as an important and understudied part of
democratization.
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