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How do post-communist museums and cinema contribute to shaping the
image of a communist past in contemporary Central and Eastern
Europe? This is the first systematic analysis of the use of visual
techniques in grasping what the previous regime means. Museums and
memorials started mushrooming all over East and Central Europe, in
the former communist world, after the past was lost 1989. While
reflecting on possible, actual meanings of the lost history the aim
of shaping public opinion and discourse of the recent communist
past also became apparent. Most of these undertakings--movies
included--tried hard to make political use of recollections of the
earlier world, and employed select tools from contemporary
museological, memorializing and new-media practice to make their
politicized intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from
scholars in the region deal with the use of new media in shaping
and fashioning popular perception of the previous era, and provide
a fresh approach to the subject.
This text explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet
Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian
political culture throughout the 20th century. Apor takes an
innovative approach to understudied aspects of European memory
cultures, focusing particularly on how a dictatorship remembers and
the concept of authenticity.
This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the
recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in
post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of
recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The
contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide
variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences,
and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at
regional and European level. Occupation and Communism in Eastern
European Museums argues that museums have a huge influence on the
image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they
use a vast array of media tools, visual tactics and commercial
strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the
past and to shape the attitude of public opinion.
This is the first work that covers the post-Communist development
of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria,
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. It offers a
uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a comparative and
critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself.
Focusing on the first post-Communist decade, 1989-1999, the book
offers a longer-term perspective that includes the immediate
'prehistory' of that momentous decade as well as its
'posthistoire'. The authors capture the spirit of 1989, that heady
mix of elation, surprise, determination, and hope: l'ivresse du
possible. This was the paradoxical beginning of Eastern European
post-Communism: ushered in by 'anti-Utopian' revolutions, and
slowly finding its course towards a bureaucratic, imitative,
challenging, and anachronistic restoration of a capitalism that had
changed almost beyond recognition when it had mutated into the
negative double of Communism. Each individual chapter has numerous
and detailed notes and references.
Baron Peter Apor lamented the passing of traditional Transylvanian
practices and the "Metamorphosis," written in 1783, is not a memoir
in the usual sense so much a record of a vanishing way of that the
life author had enjoyed in his youth, and had been told of by his
elders. Apor focuses on the world he knew: upper-class society, the
company of Princes and Counts. He gives detailed accounts of
Transylvanian dress, feasts, rituals, ceremonials, travelling,
weddings, funerals and other social functions that are unrivalled
for gusto, humour and color. Here, for example, are young Lords
whose horses had harnesses set with gems; Counts with forty
castles; hospitality of a truly prodigious nature beginning with
vermouth at breakfast drunk from silver goblets; fine banquets
taken to the sound of pipes and violins, finishing with rousing
dances such as the Mouse Dance.
This book--the first of a three-volume overview of comparative and
transnational historiography in Europe--focuses on the complex
engagement of various comparative methodological approaches with
different transnational and supranational frameworks. It considers
scales from universal history to meso-regional (i.e. Balkans,
Central Europe, etc.) perspectives. In the form of a reader, it
displays 18 historical studies written between 1900 and 1943. The
collection starts with the French and German methodological
discussions around the turn of the twentieth century, stemming from
the effort to integrate history with other emerging social sciences
on a comparative methodological basis. The volume then turns to the
question of structural and institutional comparisons, revisiting
various historiographical ventures that tried to sketch out a
broader (regional or European-level) interpretative framework to
assess the legal systems, patterns of agrarian production, and the
common ethnographic and sociocultural features. In the third part,
a number of texts are presented, which put forward a supra-national
research framework as an antidote to national exclusivism. While in
Western Europe the most obvious such framework was pan-European, in
East Central Europe the agenda of comparison was linked usually to
a meso-regional framework. The studies are accompanied by short
contextual introductions including biographical information on the
respective authors.
This collection of essays offers a captivating reading on how
East-Central Europe was transformed into the 'Other' Europe. It is
the first attempt to systematically explore the sovietization
process in Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War.
Sovietization is generally understood in the book as a process with
a dual dimension: it was in part an imperial project whereby the
Soviet system was exported to the region, but it was also an
attempt by the governments of the "people's democracies" to adopt a
Soviet way of life (self-sovietization). Sovietization was a
process dictated by ideological imperatives, but it also reflected
the distinctive aspect of socialist strategies of state and nation
building. Sovietization is examined in the book not only in terms
of the imposition of new forms of government, but also in terms of
the socialist response to modernity, as reflected in approaches to
new technology and management, consumption and leisure patterns,
religious and educational policy, political rituals and attitudes
to the past. The essays contained in the volume explore the
diversity and the tensions within the sovietization process in the
countries of the region. "This collection is a bold and timely
attempt at shedding light on a rather insufficiently researched
topic. It offers a comprehensive view of the extent and
consequences of the Sovietization process in the countries of
East-Central Europe. Moreover, the diverse approaches-ranging from
socio-cultural and economic history to psycho-history-offer to
specialists and lay people alike a captivating reading on how
East-Central Europe was transformed into the 'Other' Europe." - Dr.
Dragos Petrescu, University of Bucharest. "This collection of
essays remains attentive to the specificity of the ways in which
Soviet socialist ideology and organizational structures, and
Soviet-style practices, were embedded, naturalized, appropriated,
transformed, subverted or repulsed in different national contexts
in the nations of Central and Eastern Europe." - Dr. Susan E. Reid,
Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield. "After 1989, historical
research on the Communist period usually remained within national
borders. It is important to actively integrate the results of these
endevors and pursue a European history of Communism. This volume is
an important step in this direction. Its comparative, transnational
perspective makes it an outstanding contribution to the field." -
Prof. Dr. Christoph Klessmann, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische, Potsdam
This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the
recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in
post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of
recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The
contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide
variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences,
and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at
regional and European level. Occupation and Communism in Eastern
European Museums argues that museums have a huge influence on the
image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they
use a vast array of media tools, visual tactics and commercial
strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the
past and to shape the attitude of public opinion.
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