Collective Memories in War [Hardcover]

This edited collection offers an empirical exploration of social memory in the context of politics, war, identity and culture. With a substantive focus on Eastern Europe, it employs the methodologies of visual studies, content and discourse analysis, in-depth interviews and surveys to substantiate how memory narratives are composed and rewritten in changing ideological and political contexts. The book examines various historical events, including the Russian-Afghan war of 1979-89 and World War II, and considers public and local rituals, monuments and museums, textbook accounts, gender and the body. As such it provides a rich picture of post-socialist memory construction and function based in interdisciplinary memory studies.

Introduction  Part I: Policy of History and Memory in Different Socio-Cultural Contexts  1.The Politics of History in Poland and Germany,MichaB Auczewski, Paulina Bednarz-Auczewska, Tomasz Ma[lanka  2. Collective memory and its Cultural Antecedents in Russia,Michail Chernysh  3. Between Past and Present: The forming of views on history in the Czech Republic, JiY? `ubrt  Part II: Cultural Memory Through School Textbooks  4. Discourse Analysis of School History Textbooks in Russia: Representation of the Afghanistan War, Elizaveta Polukhina, Alexander Malyugin  5. Between Memory and History - cultural memory in Polish school history books in the years 1945-2011. Analysis of three historical events, Ilona GoBbiewska  6. From Soviet to Ukrainian History Textbooks: Conflicts of interpretation, Oksana Danilenko  Part III: Memory Representations in Social Space  7. The Space of Memory in Afghanistan War Museum,Irina Tartakovskaya, Elena Rozhdestvenskaya  8. War lS(