2 options
Historical injustice and democratic transition in eastern Asia and northern Europe : ghosts at the table of democracy / edited by Kenneth Christie and Robert Cribb.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Politics/History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--East Asia.
- Democracy.
- Democracy--Europe, Northern.
- Europe, Northern--Politics and government.
- Europe, Northern.
- East Asia--Politics and government.
- East Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The memory of past atrocity lingers like a ghost at the table of democracy. Injustices carried out in the past - from massacres and murder to repression and detention - embitter societies and distort their structures so that the process of establishing and running a democracy carries an extra burden. This volume examines societies at various stages of dealing with the memory of the past, from China, Mongolia, Indonesia and the Baltic States, where bitter memories of death and persecution still intrude, to Finland, where the civil war of 1918 has finally been accepted as a distant national trag
- Contents:
- Cover; HISTORICAL INJUSTICE AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN EASTERN ASIA ANDNORTHERN EUROPE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: remembering, forgetting and historical in justice; 2 Victim or victimizer: the reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution through personal stories; 3 The aftermath of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia; 4 Forgetting what it was to remember the Indonesian killings of 1965-6; 5 Remembering and forgetting at 'Lubang Buaya': the 'coup' of1965 in contemporary Indonesian historical perception and public commemoration
- 6 Causes and consequences of historical amnesia: the annexationof the Baltic states in post-Soviet Russian popular history and political memory7 Coming to terms with the past: memories of displacement and resistance in the Baltic states; 8 Transmitted experience: individual testimonies and collective memories of the Nanjing Atrocity; 9 Thirty thousand bullets: remembering political repression in Mongolia; 10 Coping with the Civil War of 1918 in twenty-first century Finland; 11 Civil War victims and the ways of mourning in Finland in 1918
- 12 Remembering the Finnish Civil War: confronting a harrowing pastIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-78968-1
- 1-135-78969-X
- 1-138-99223-2
- 1-280-19529-0
- 0-203-22035-8
- 9780203220351
- OCLC:
- 437079135
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.