History of Communism in Europe, Vol. I – 2010. Politics of Memory in Post-communist Europe

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Argument

Mihail Neamțu: Studying Communism in Eastern Europe: Moral Clarity, Conceptual Diversity, and Interdisciplinary Methodology

I. Miscellanea

Vladimir Tismăneanu: Coming to Terms with a Traumatic Past: Reflections on Democracy, Atonement, and Memory
Paul Hollander: Political Pilgrimages: Their Meaning, Aftermath, and Linkages
Brendan Purcell: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Overcoming Personal, Political and Historical Amnesia Through Literary-Aesthetic Anamnesis
Jean-Claude Polet: Histoire, Mémoire et Eschatologie
John Ely: Re-Membering Romania:A Ghost Story

II. Memory in museums and memorials

Radostina Sharenkova: Forget-Me(-Not): Visitors and Museum Presentations about Communism before 1989
Simina Bădică: The Black Hole Paradigm. Exhibiting Communism in Post-Communist Romania

III. Artistic portrayals of memory

Masumi Kameda: Collective Memory of Communism in Croatia since 1994: Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Arts and National Narratives
Oana Popescu-Sandu: “Something Nice to Remember”. Silence and Memory Between Generations in Two Gulag Films
Caterina Preda: Looking at the Past Through an Artistic Lens: Art of Memorialization

IV. Remembering Communism in Central and Eastern EuropeIna Dimitrova: How We Raised a Monster: Constructing the Image of Socialism During the Post-Socialist Period in Bulgaria
Sergiu Gherghina: Attitudes towards the Communist Past in Five Central and Eastern European Countries
Anastas Vangeli: Facing the Yugoslav Communist Past in Contemporary Macedonia: Tales of Continuity, Nostalgia and Victimization
Lori Amy: Re-Membering in Transition: The Trans-national Stakes of Violence and Denial in Post-Communist Albania
Peter Ulrich Weiss: Revolution without revolutionaries?On the debate about the nature of the upheaval in 1989-90 in the GDR and its protagonists as seen in the context of its 20th anniversary
Meike Wulf: Politics of History in Estonia: Changing Memory Regimes 1987-2009

V. Reviews
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Le jeune Staline (Ștefan Bosomitu).
Vlad Georgescu, Politics and History. The Case of Romanian Communists (1944-1977) (Cristina Roman)
Ralph Darlington, Syndicalism and the Transition to Communism. An International Comparative Analysis (Dan Drăghia)
Maria Bucur, Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania (Andrei Muraru).
Orlando Figes, Les chuchoteurs: Vivre et survivre sous Staline (Mia Jinga)