1st Edition

The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe

Edited By Ljiljana Radonić Copyright 2020
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the “memory wars” in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash. The book focuses specifically on how “mnemonic warriors” employ the “Holocaust template” and the concept of genocide in tendentious ways to justify radical policies and externalize the culpability for... Read more

Introduction: The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe

Ljiljana Radonic

1. Limits of Universalization: The European Memory Sites of Genocide

Éva Kovács

2. From “Double Genocide” to “the New Jews”: Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence in Post-Communist Memorial Museums

Ljiljana Radonic

3. A Baltic Struggle for a “European Memory”: The Militant Mnemopolitics of The Soviet Story

Maria Mälksoo

4. Genocide, Holodomor and Holocaust Discourse as Echo of Historical Injury and as Rhetorical Radicalization in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict of 2013–18

Nicolas Dreyer

5. Talking Past Each Other: Language and Post-World War II Killings in Slovenia

Gregor Kranjc

6. Defending the “Good Name” of the Polish Nation: Politics of History as a Battlefield in Poland, 2015–18

Jörg Hackmann

7. Liberty Square, Budapest: How Hungary Won the Second World War

István Rév

Biography



Ljiljana Radonić heads an ERC project on “Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History). Her habilitation dealt with the “World War II in Post-Communist Memorial Museums”. She teaches at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria.