Twenty years after communism / Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West, the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy. In post-communist Eastern Europe, the way people remember state socialism is closely intertwined with the manner in which they envision historical justice. This book is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated (or not commemorated) by major political actors across the region.

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Collective memory--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern--Case studies.
Memorialization--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern--Case studies.
Post-communism--Europe, Eastern--Case studies.


Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989---Case studies.

DJK51 / .T89 2014

943.0009049