Memory and Change in Europe

Małgorzata Pakier is Head of the Research Department at the POLIN 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-edited with Bo Stråth, 2010).

“[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.” · European History Quarterly“The various contributions to this book highlight why the joint enterprise of creating and reconciling memories between Eastern and Western Europe remains a complex undertaking that escapes straightforward answers. Yet the search for answers is valuable and stimulating. The reader is invited to travel to locales which, while not terrae incognitae, reveal themselves in new and fascinating ways.” · Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University

• List of IllustrationsForewordJeffrey OlickAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special?Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna WawrzyniakPART I: MEMORY DIALOGUES AND MONOLOGUESChapter 1. The Transformative Power of Memory    Aleida AssmannChapter 2. Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for ‘Eastern Europe’    Andrzej NowakPART II: EUROPE AS A (UNIQUE) MEMORY FRAMEWORK?Chapter 3. The (non-)Travelling Concept of Les Lieux de Mémoire: Central and Eastern European Perspectives    Maciej Górny and Kornelia KończalChapter 4. Ain’t Nothing SpecialSławomir KapralskiChapter 5. Biographical and Collective Memory: Mutual Influences in Central and Eastern European Context    Kaja KaźmierskaPART III: EASTERN EUROPEAN MEMORIES FACING HISTORICAL CHANGE AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 6. The Path of Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe        Joanna Beata MichlicChapter 7. The Rise of an East European Community of Memory? On Lobbying for the Gulag Memory via BrusselsLidia Zessin-JurekChapter 8. Two Concepts of Victimhood: Property Restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989Stanisław TyszkaChapter 9. Shared Memory Culture? Nationalizing the ‘Great Patriotic War’ in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands    Tatiana ZhurzhenkoChapter 10. History, Politics and Memory (Ukraine 1990s – 2000s)Georgiy KasianovChapter 11. Walking Memory through City Space in Sevastopol, CrimeaJudy BrownPART IV: FOCI OF MEMORIES IN EASTERN EUROPEChapter 12. World War II in the Memory of Contemporary Polish SocietyPiotr Tadeusz KwiatkowskiChapter 13. Auschwitz and Katyń in Bondage of Politics: The Process of Shaping Memory in Communist PolandJacek Chrobaczyński and Piotr TrojańskiChapter 14. Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German Lieu de Mémoire? On the Asymmetry of MemoriesMatthias WeberChapter 15. Remembering Collectivization in BulgariaIana IanchevaChapter 16. Uses and Misuses of Memory: Dealing with Communist Past in Postcommunist Bulgaria and RomaniaClaudia-Florentina DobreBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex