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Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania

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Description for Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania Paperback. Explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes - from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation. Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 24 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBW; JWTY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.

Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes—from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucur's study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers, rituals, and street names as well as autobiographical writings, novels, oral narratives, and film. This book reveals the ways ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221346
SKU
V9780253221346
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Maria Bucur-Deckard
Maria Bucur is John W. Hill Chair in East European History and Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania and editor (with Nancy M. Wingfield) of Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe (IUP, 2006).

Reviews for Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania
In this impressive study of Romanian memory from 1877-78 to 2007, historian Bucur (Indiana Univ.) demonstrates that Western-centric narratives cannot adequately explain eastern European experiences. Romania's specific territorial development and its diverse religious and ethnic composition determined identity construction and commemorative practice, which granted Orthodox ethnic Romanians a privileged position over minorities (Hungarians, Germans, Jews, Catholics, Protestants) throughout the period. ... Read more

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