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Part 1 - History, Memory, and Politics in Eastern European
Museums
1. Memorializing Recent ‘Pasts’ in Eastern Europe, Péter Apor and
Constantin Iordachi, (Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Hungary) and (Central European University, Hungary)
2. ‘Remembering’ versus ‘Condemning’ Communism, Constantin
Iordachi, (Central European University, Hungary)
3. Institutional Narratives of Communism in Slovakia: Substituting
the Non-Existence of the Official Museum of Communism, Martin
Kovanic, (Mendel University, Czech Republic)
Part 2 - Museums of Occupation
4. Tackling the Past in Poland: Museifying World War II, Maud
Guichard-Marneur, (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
5. From Museum as Memorial to Memory Museum: On the Transformation
of the Estonian Museum of Occupations, Kirsti Jõesalu and Ene
Kõresaar, (both University of Tartu, Estonia)
6. (Re)constructing the Past: Museums in Post-Communist Croatia,
Vjeran Pavlakovic, (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
Part 3 - Museums of Communism and the Politics of
History
7. Boundary Objects of Communism: Assembling the Soviet Past in
Lithuanian Museums and Public Spaces, Egle Rindzeviciute, (Kingston
University London, UK)
8. The ‘Display’ of Communism in Germany, Irmgard Zürndorf, (The
Centre for Contemporary History, Germany)
9. Remembering the GDR, Martin Sabrow, (Humboldt University of
Berlin, Germany)
10. Discussing the Past, or Airing the Depots: Refashioning
Exhibitions of Socialism in Serbia, Olga Manojlovic-Pintar
(Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Serbia) and Aleksandar
Ignjatovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
11. Life and Death of the Communist Object in Post-Communist
Romanian Museums, Simina Badica, (National Museum of the Romanian
Peasant, Romania)
Part 4 - Museums of Communism: Practices of
Representation
12. Laboratory: A Proposal for Representing Communism in Romania,
Viviana Iacob, (University of Bucharest, Romania)
13. Museums of Socialism from Below: Grass-roots Representations of
the Socialist Past in Contemporary Bulgaria, Rossitza Guentcheva,
(Institute for Advanced Study, Germany)
14. Canons of Civilization and Experiments of Spectacle: Exhibiting
Contemporary History in Hungary, Péter Apor, (Institute of History,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
15. Conclusions, Péter Apor (Institute of History, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, Hungary) and Constantin Iordachi (Institute of
History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
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An exploration of the role played by Eastern European museums in shaping the public consciousness with regards to the Second World War and the communism of the 20th century.
Constantin Iordachi is Professor in the History
Department at Central European University, Hungary. He is the
author of Liberalism, Constitutional Nationalism and Minorities:
The Making of Romanian Citizenship, c. 1750-1918 (2019) and editor
of Comparative Fascist Studies (2009).
Péter Apor is Research Fellow at the Institute of History,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary. He is the author of
Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary: The Afterlife of the
First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the Age of State Socialism
(2014).
This book is an indispensable guide to the complexities of the
post-communist efforts to institutionalise, through museums and
exhibitions, various memories of the defunct dictatorial
regimes.
*Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Politics, University of
Maryland, USA*
Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums is a wonderful
testimony to the power of scholarship to intervene, through sharp
analysis, in memory debates and act as a counterforce to those
right-wing populist nationalisms that are currently endangering
democracies across east-central and eastern Europe – and the wider
world.
*Stefan Berger, Professor of History and Director of the Institute
for Social Movements, House for the History of the Ruhr,
Germany*
Eastern Europe is a place where history really matters: it evokes
heated passions and conflicts, both within nations and between
states, and museums are at the forefront of this battlefield. This
book greatly helps understand the complicated and fascinating east
European memory landscape and the pivotal role the museums play in
it.
*Pawel Machcewicz, Professor of History, Institute of Political
Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences*
The volume is an excellent interdisciplinary contribution to the
field of museum studies, memory studies and studies of Communism in
Eastern Europe.
*Slavonic & East European Review*
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