1st Edition

Memory and Totalitarianism

By Luisa Passerini Copyright 1992
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

177 Pages
by Routledge

Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. The invasion of Moscow's streets by Russian people rejecting an attempted coup d'etat was the culmination of a process that had been initiated years before and raised crucial questions: To what extent can these events be considered the end of an era stretching from World War I... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, RICHARD CROWNSHAW AND SELMA LEYDESDORFF, List of Contributors, 1. Introduction, 2. Antagonistic Memories: The Post-War Survival and Alienation of ]ews and Germans, 3. Where Were You on 17 June? A Niche in Memory, 4. A German Generation of Reconstruction: The Children of the Weimar Republic in the GDR, 5. After Glasnost: Oral History in the Soviet Union, 6. The Gulag in Memory, 7. The Abduction of lmre Nagy and his Group: The 'Rashomon' Effect, 8. Mujeres Libres: The Preservation of Memory under the Politics of Repression in Spain, 9. A Shattered Silence: The Life Stories of Survivors of thej ewish Proletariat of Amsterdam, 10. Don't Forget: Fragments of a Negative Tradition

Biography

Luisa Passerini