1st Edition
Remembrance, History, and Justice Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies
516 Pages
by
Central European University Press
516 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, or collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often the premises for and the specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts. The present manuscript is a state of the art... Read more
Introduction, Part One: Politics of Memory and Constructing Democracy, Daniel Chirot, Part Two : Histories and their Publics, Part Three: Searching for Closure in Democratizing Societies, Part Four : Competing Narratives of Troubled Pasts, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Bogdan C. Iacob is Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter.
Vladimir Tismaneanu isProfessor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park).
