1st Edition

Memory and Pluralism in the Baltic States

Edited By Eva-Clarita Pettai Copyright 2011
160 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Memories, both in individual and collective form, still have a significant impact on how people relate to political processes in Europe today. While much has been written about top-down attempts by states and political actors to mould people’s memories of the past through public commemoration, textbooks or monuments, this volume takes a view from below by focusing on different types of societal... Read more

1. Introduction: Memory and Democratic Pluralism in the Baltic States – Rethinking the Relationship Eva-Clarita Pettai  2. Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Lithuania Neringa Klumbytė  3. Different History, Different Citizenship? Competing Narratives and Diverging Civil Enculturation in Majority and Minority Schools in Estonia and Latvia Maria Golubeva  4. Experiences of Collective Trauma and Political Activism: A Study of Women ‘Agents of Memory’ in Post-Soviet Lithuania Dovilė Budrytė  5. Generating Meaning Across Generations: The Role of Historians in the Codification of History in Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonia Meike Wulf and Pertti Grönholm  6. Politicians Versus Intellectuals in the Lustration Debates in Transitional Latvia Ieva Zake  7. Memory, Pluralism and the Agony of Politics Siobhan Kattago

Biography

Eva-Clarita Pettai, PhD is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu, Estonia. She is author of two books on the uses of history and democratization in Latvia (both in German) as well as of numerous publications on WWII commemoration in Europe today from a cross-national comparative perspective.