Remembrance, history, and justice : coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies / edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob.
Tismaneanu, Vladimir, editor.; Iacob, Bogdan, editor.
2015
DJK51 .R46 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Remembrance, history, and justice : coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies / edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob.
ISBN
9789633861011 (paperback)
9633861012 (paperback)
9789633860922 (hardcover)
963386092X (hardcover)
Published
Budapest : Central European University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
vii, 508 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
DJK51 .R46 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.4/90947
Summary
"The present book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The volume is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice. Subsequently, the contributors deal with trauma and the reconstitution of democratic communities, with the multiple publics of historical inquiry in the context of a shift from authoritarianism to pluralism, with the competing narratives resultant of the process of Aufarbeitung, and last but not least, with the juridical and investigative efforts to acknowledge and punish the crimes and abuses of the past. It brings together historiography with memory studies, intellectual and legal history, political analysis with theoretical insight. It integrates local and regional experiences with traumatic pasts into a global structure that offers the possibility of more general conclusions about the memory of a century touched by the 'reek of cruelty'. The authors situate the process of coming to terms with the past (communism, fascism, authoritarianism, failed democracies) in Eastern Europe (including the Western Balkans) and the former Soviet space within the larger context of discussing the memory and history of the post-war period. At the same time, the European overview is compared with other cases of post-authoritarian transitions such as those in Latin America, South Africa, Japan, and the Middle East. The result is a clustered big picture of practices of remembrance, reckoning, and historiographical reevaluation"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Tismaneanu, Vladimir, editor.
Iacob, Bogdan, editor.
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Introduction / Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob
Part One
Politics of memory and constructing democracy
European mass killing and European commemoration / Timothy Snyder
Why World War II memories remain so troubled in Europe and East Asia / Daniel Chirot
Post-authoritarian memories in Europe and Latin America / Eusebio Mujal-Leon and Eric Langenbacher
Divided memory revisited : the Nazi past in West Germany and in postwar Palestine / Jeffrey Herf
On the relationship between politics of memory and the state's attitude with the communist past / Alexandru Gussi
Part Two. Histories and their publics
Democracy, memory, and moral justice / Vladimir Tismaneanu
Promotion of a usable past : official efforts to rewrite Russo-Soviet history, 2000-2014 / David Brandenberger
Germany's two processes of "coming to terms with the past" : failures, after all? / Jan-Werner Müller
Part Three. Searching for closure in democratizing societies
Twenty-five years "after" : the ambivalence of settling accounts with communism : the Polish case / Andrzej Paczkowski
The Romanian revolution in court : what narratives about 1989? / Raluca Grosescu and Raluca Ursachi
Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague : failed success of a historical trial / Vladimir Petrovic
The South Africa transition : then and now / Charles Villa-Vicencio
Scholarship and public memory : the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (PCACDR) / Cristian Vasile
Moldova under the Soviet communist regime : history and memory / Igor Casu
Part Four. Competing narratives of troubled pasts
Coming to terms with Catholic-Jewish relations in the Polish Catholic church / John Connelly
After communism : identity and morality in the Baltic countries / Leonidas Donskis
The Romanian communist past and the entrapment of polemics / Bogdan C. Iacob
Past intransient/transiting past : remembering the victims and the representation of communist past in Bulgaria / Nikolai Vukov.

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