Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Copyright Page -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 A Difficult Relationship — World War II and Remembrance in Post-Socialist Europe / Paul Srodecki -- Chapter 2 Mechanisms of Dealing with the Past / Frank Golczewski -- Chapter 3 The Militainment of World War II Memory in Post-Soviet Russia / Elizaveta Gaufman -- Chapter 4 From Great Patriotic War to World War II: How Memory Changed in Georgia after Independence / Nino Chikovani and Malkhaz Matsaberidze -- Chapter 5 Difficult Transformation: The Remembrance of World War II in Czechia after 1989 / Darina Volf -- Chapter 6 Remembering the Holocaust after 1989: Slovakia More Than Thirty Years Later / Monika Vrzgulová -- Chapter 7 Victims and Perpetrators of World War II in Memory Politics in Serbia and Croatia, 1990s–2020 / Jelena Jorgačević Kisić and Olga Manojlović Pintar -- Chapter 8 Just a Local Affair? Estonian Memories of the Second World War and the Dialogue with Western Memory Culture / David Feest -- Chapter 9 World War II and the Holocaust in Post-Communist Memorial Museums / Ljiljana Radonić -- Chapter 10 Great Patriotic War versus Nationalization: Remembrance and Commemoration in Belarusian Museums / Kristiane Janeke -- Chapter 11 Museums’ Representation of World War II in Ukraine 1991–2019 against the Background of Memory Politics: Competing Narratives and Reconciliation Measures / Daria Kozlova -- Chapter 12 Stumbling Blocks in the Way — Holocaust Remembrance in Hungary after 1989 / Zsuzsanna Agora and George Deak -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Index.

Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of World War II remembrance and memory politics in East-Central and Eastern Europe this volume uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of cultural memory in a pan-European overview. Ranging in scope from various post-Soviet states such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, and Georgia to the East-Central and South-Eastern European post-socialist countries of Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia, this book provides new insights into the ways in which World War II remembrance is reflected in the memory politics, historical studies, culture and literature of the respective countries. The volume focuses mostly on state memory narratives and their public reception as well as museums, memorials and monuments as controversial objects of cultural memory.

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