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 Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.
List of Illustrations Foreword Jeffrey Olick Acknowledgments Introduction: Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special? Malgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak PART I: MEMORY DIALOGUES AND MONOLOGUES Chapter 1. The Transformative Power of Memory Aleida Assmann Chapter 2. Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for 'Eastern Europe' Andrzej Nowak PART II: EUROPE AS A (UNIQUE) MEMORY FRAMEWORK? Chapter 3. The (non-)Travelling Concept of Les Lieux de Memoire: Central and Eastern European Perspectives Maciej Gorny and Kornelia Konczal Chapter 4. Ain't Nothing Special Slawomir Kapralski Chapter 5. Biographical and Collective Memory: Mutual Influences in Central and Eastern European Context Kaja Kazmierska PART III: EASTERN EUROPEAN MEMORIES FACING HISTORICAL CHANGE AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 6. The Path of Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe Joanna Beata Michlic Chapter 7. The Rise of an East European Community of Memory? On Lobbying for the Gulag Memory via Brussels Lidia Zessin-Jurek Chapter 8. Two Concepts of Victimhood: Property Restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 Stanislaw Tyszka Chapter 9. Shared Memory Culture? Nationalizing the 'Great Patriotic War' in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Tatiana Zhurzhenko Chapter 10. History, Politics and Memory (Ukraine 1990s - 2000s) Georgiy Kasianov Chapter 11. Walking Memory through City Space in Sevastopol, Crimea Judy Brown PART IV: FOCI OF MEMORIES IN EASTERN EUROPE Chapter 12. World War II in the Memory of Contemporary Polish Society Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski Chapter 13. Auschwitz and Katyn in Bondage of Politics: The Process of Shaping Memory in Communist Poland Jacek Chrobaczynski and Piotr Trojanski Chapter 14. Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German Lieu de Memoire? On the Asymmetry of Memories Matthias Weber Chapter 15. Remembering Collectivization in Bulgaria Iana Iancheva Chapter 16. Uses and Misuses of Memory: Dealing with Communist Past in Postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania Claudia-Florentina Dobre Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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