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The book provides a new, historical, cultural and sociological
perspective on an era that received a very different coverage at
the time The region is fully explored including Poland, the Czech
Republic, Hungary and East Germany The book is another important
contribution to the burgeoning field of memory studies
"Regions of memory" are a scale of social and cultural memory that
reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or
universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational
constellations of memory across and between several geographical
areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions
between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field
of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a variety of
global memory regions in parallel. Moreover, it reveals
lesser-known vectors and mechanisms of memory travel, such as
across Cold War battle lines, across the Indian Ocean, or between
Southeast Asia and western Europe. Chapters 1 and 6 are available
open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License via link.springer.com.
Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War
II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the
Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular
ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical
representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political
discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book
presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and
provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in
the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still
exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians,
Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role
in this process.
In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack
of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While
understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European
memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of
Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region's
experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of
Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European
historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or
applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this
way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within
the broader debate on European memory.
Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War
II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the
Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular
ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical
representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political
discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book
presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and
provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in
the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still
exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians,
Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role
in this process.
In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack
of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While
understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European
memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of
Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region's
experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of
Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European
historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or
applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this
way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within
the broader debate on European memory.
In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been
remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist
Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce.
The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice,
explored in this book, might help to understand why the country
still finds itself in a "mnemonic standoff" with Western Europe,
which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust,
human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the
organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi
camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core
narratives of war became well established.
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