Mass dictatorship and memory as ever present past
This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictat...
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Mass dictatorship in the twentieth century
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This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137289827. |
Carrier Form: | 272 p. : 10 b&w, halftones. |
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Contents: | List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Past of Mass Dictatorship-- Peter Lambert & Jie-Hyun Lim PART I: ENTANGLED MEMORY AND COMPARATIVE HISTORY 2. The Predicaments of Culture: War, Dictatorship, and Modernity in Early Postwar West Germany and Japan-- Sebastian Conrad 3. Victimhood Nationalism in the Memory of Mass Dictatorship-- Jie-Hyun Lim 4. Creating a Victimhood Nation: The Politics of the Austrian People's Courts and High Treason-- Hiroko Mizuno PART II: THE DIALECTICAL INTERPLAY OF HISTORY AND MEMORY 5. Ukraine Faces Its Soviet Past: History vs. Policy vs. Memory-- Volodymyr Kravchenko 6. History and Responsibility: On the Debates on the Showa History-- Naoki Sakai 7. Widukind or Karl der Grosse? Perspectives on Historical Culture and Memory in the Third Reich and Post-war West Germany-- Peter Lambert PART III: PLURALIZING MEMORIES: FRAGMENTED, CONTESTED, RESISTED 8. The Suppression and Recall of Colonial Memory: Manchukuo and the Cold War in the Two Koreas-- Suk-Jung Han 9. Accomplices of Violence: Guilt and Purification through Altruism among the Moscow Human Rights Activists of the 1960s and 1970s-- Barbara Walker 10. Consuming Fragments of Mao Zedong: The Chairman's Final Two Decades at the Helm-- Michael Schoenhals 11. The Lived Space of Recollection: How Holocaust Memorials are Conceived Differently Today-- Jorg Gleiter. |