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The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two
small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands.
Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939
Polish Zolkiew) and Polish Krzyz (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to
share a common fate of many European localities, destroyed and
rebuilt in a completely new shape. As a result of war, and post-war
ethnic cleansing and displacement, they lost almost all of their
pre-war inhabitants and were repopulated by new people. Based on
more than 150 oral history interviews, the book describes the
process of reconstruction of social microcosm, involving the reader
in a journey through the lives of real people entangled in the
dramatic historical events of the 20th century.
This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of
occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in
Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians,
sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on
those who now lived in 'cleansed' borderlands. Its contributors
explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept
of 'No Neighbors' Lands': How does it feel to wear the dress of
your murdered neighbor? How does one get used to friends,
colleagues, and neighbors no longer being part of everyday life?
How is moral, social, and legal order reinstated after one part of
the community participated in the ethnic cleansing of another? How
is order restored psychologically in the wake of neighbors watching
others being slaughtered by external enemies? This book sheds light
on how destroyed European communities, once multi-ethnic and
multi-religious, experienced postwar reconstruction, attempted to
come to terms with what had happened, and negotiated remembrance.
In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass
migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern
Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine,
memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to
repress and control the past in order to form new national
identities supportive of their own agendas. With the collapse of
the Soviet Union, memory in Ukraine was released, creating
alternate visions of the past, new national heroes, and new
victims. This release of memories led to new conflicts and "memory
wars." How does the past exist in contemporary Ukraine? The works
collected in The Burden of the Past focus on commemorative
practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences
Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture. The works explore
contemporary memory culture in Ukraine and the ways in which it is
being researched and understood. Drawing on work from historians,
sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and political
scientists, the collection represents a truly interdisciplinary
approach. Taken together, the groundbreaking scholarship collected
in The Burden of the Past provides insight into how memories can be
warped and abused, and how this abuse can have lasting effects on a
country seeking to create a hopeful future.
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