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Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives
Malgorzata Pakier (Ed.)
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Hardback. In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. This volume offers a reflection on memory in an Eastern European historical context, one that can be measured against and applied to historical experience in other parts of Europe. Editor(s): Pakier, Malgorzata; Wawrzyniak, Joanna. Series: Contemporary European History. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; HBLW; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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...
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Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
372
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Contemporary European History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782389293
SKU
V9781782389293
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About Malgorzata Pakier (Ed.)
Malgorzata Pakier is Head of the Research Department at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Her publications include The Construction of European Holocaust Memory. German and Polish Cinema after 1989 (2013), and A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance (co-ed. with Bo Strath, 2010). Joanna Wawrzyniak is Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology,...
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[This volume] addresses memory and cultural transformations from an eastern point of view... [and] illuminates very different aspects of the problems Eastern European researchers face identifying national crossroads of diverging memories and the necessity of coming to terms with a surfeit of memories which had not hitherto been publicly articulated or acknowledged.
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