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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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Group Author: Lim, Jie-Hyun.; Walker, Barbara.; Lambert, Peter.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Mass dictatorship in the twentieth century
Subjects:
Dictatorship > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > Political aspects.
Social & cultural history > 20th century.
Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship > 20th century.
General & world history > 20th century.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 > 20th century.
History.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137289834
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137289827.
Carrier Form: 272 p. : 10 b&w, halftones.
ISBN: 9781137289834 :
113728983X :
CLC: D033.3
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.

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