ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|35 pages
Policy of history and memory in different socio-cultural contexts
part 2|39 pages
Cultural memory through school textbooks
chapter 4|14 pages
Discourse analysis of school history textbooks in Russia
chapter 5|14 pages
Between memory and history
part 3|39 pages
Memory representations in social space
part 4|38 pages
Narrating memory
part 5|27 pages
Memory and gender