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The Unfinished Revolution : Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe
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While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people's revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In th...
While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people's revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new democratic societies are still divided by the past.
Details
- Creator
- Susan M. Hartmann
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0300167164, 9780300170115, 0300170114
- OCLC
- on1024055454
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION -- CHAPTER TWO COMPLETING THE REVOLUTION HISTORY COMMISSIONS AND INSTITUTES OF NATIONAL MEMORY -- CHAPTER THREE CRIMINALIZING COMMUNISM? HISTORY AT TERROR SITES AND IN STATUE PARKS AND NATIONAL MUSEUMS -- CHAPTER FOUR CONTAINING FASCISM ANTI-COMMUNISM IN THE AGE OF HOLOCAUST MEMORY1 -- CHAPTER FIVE REMAKING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY COMMUNISTS AND THEIR PASTS -- CHAPTER SIX VICTIMS' STORIES -- CHAPTER SEVEN THE AFTERLIFE OF ATROCITY REMEMBERING RED ARMY RAPE AFTER 19891 -- CONCLUSION: DIVIDED SOCIETIES, DEMOCRATIC MEMORY? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Subjects
- Communism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central.
- Communism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern.
- Post-communism -- Europe, Central.
- Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.
- Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central.
- Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern.
- Collective memory -- Europe, Central.
- Collective memory -- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Central -- Social conditions -- 1989-
- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989-