Twenty years after communism : the politics of memory and commemoration / edited by Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernhard, Michael H., editor.

Kubik, Jan, 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern--Case studies.

Collective memory.

Memorialization--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern--Case studies.

Memorialization.

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern--Case studies.

Post-communism.

Politics and government.

Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989---Case studies.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 362 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Remembering the past, especially as collectivity, is a political process, thus the politics of memory and commemoration is an integral part of the establishment of new political regimes, new identities, and new principles of political legitimacy. This volume is about the explosion of the politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, particularly about the politics of its commemoration twenty years later. It offers seventeen in-depth case studies, an original theoretical framework, and a comparative study of memory regime types and their origins. Four different kinds of mnemonic actors are identified: mnemonic warriors, mnemonic pluralists, mnemonic abnegators, and mnemonic prospectives. Their combinations render three different types of memory regimes: fractured, pillarized, and unified. Disciplined comparative analysis shows how several different configurations of factors affect the emergence of mnemonic actors and different varieties of memory regimes. There are three groups of causal factors that influence the political form of the memory regime: the range of structural constraints the actors face (e.g., the type of regime transformation), cultural constraints linked to past political conflict (e.g., salient ethnic or religious cleavages), and cultural and strategic choices actors make (e.g. framing post-communist political identities)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of Figures and Tables

List of Pictures

Acknowledgments

Contributor list

Introduction

Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik

Chapter 1: A Theory of the Politics of Memory

Jan Kubik and Michael Bernhard

Part I: Fractured Memory Regimes

Chapter 2: Revolutionary Road: 1956 and the Fracturing of Hungarian Historical Memory

Anna Seleny

Chapter 3: Roundtable Discord: The Contested Legacy of 1989 in Poland

Chapter 4: Romania Twenty Years after 1989: The Bizarre Echoes of a Contested Revolution

Grigore Pop-Eleches

Chapter 5: I Ignored Your Revolution, but You Forgot My Anniversary: Party Competition in Slovakia and the Construction of Recollection

Carol Skalnik Leff, Kevin Deegan-Krause, and Sharon L. Wolchik

Chapter 6: Remembering the Revolution: Contested Pasts in the Baltic Countries

Daina S. Eglitis and Laura Ardava

Chapter 7: Memories of the Past and Visions of the Future: Remembering the Soviet Era and its End in Ukraine

Oxana Shevel

Part II: Pillarized Memory Regimes

Chapter 8: Remembering, Not Commemorating, 1989: The 20-Year Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic

Conor O'Dwyer

Part III: Unified Memory Regimes

Chapter 9: Making Room for November 9, 1989? The Fall of the Berlin Wall in German Politics and Memory

David Art

Chapter 10: The Inescapable Past: The Politics of Memory in Postcommunist Bulgaria

Venelin I. Ganev

Chapter 11: Lives of Others: Commemorating 1989 in the Former Yugoslavia

Aida A. Hozi?

Part IV: Conclusions

The Politics and Culture of Memory Regimes: A Comparative Analysis

Appendices

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199375134

0199375135

9780199375141

0199375143

OCLC:

875851923