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Memory Politics in the Shadow of the New Cold War.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nycz, Grzegorz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory--Europe.
- Collective memory.
- Collective memory--Political aspects.
- History--Study and teaching--Political aspects.
- History.
- Historiography--Political aspects.
- Historiography.
- Cold War.
- Europe--History--20th century--Historiography.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/München/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This book addresses memory politics and their evolution as an academic discipline, including memory studies. It explores national and international debates about conflicting interpretations of the recent past, including WWII remembering, the annexation of Ukraine, the reformed history teaching in Putin's Russia, Historikerstreit and the Holocaust in Germany, and the legacy and role of nuclear weapons in international relations in the USA in the context of the so called New Cold War."-- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Memory politics theory : a brief overview and an eye on shifts towards the post-Cold War era developments
- Memory politics and totalitarian demons (The new Cold War perspective)
- Collective memory concerns in the post-Cold War enlarged NATO area
- The controversies and challenges of Russia's national memory in the Putin era
- Memory politics as an instrument of annexation : the case of illegal annexation of Crimean Republic by Russia
- New Cold War and European memory politics
- Problems of remembrance of Nazi Germany crime in FRG : Historikerstreit, Auschwitz Lüge, Jenninger Affair
- Memory politics and security dilemmas of the nuclear age : a debate on alternatives to atomic bombings in the context of the Smithsonian's Enola Gay B-29 exhibitions 1994-2003.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nycz, Grzegorz Memory Politics in the Shadow of the New Cold War
- ISBN:
- 3-11-075201-8
- OCLC:
- 1287133702
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