The Mnemonic Warriors of the European Far Right Memory Politics, Laws, Narratives

Introduction

Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas and Grzegorz Pożarlik

Part 1: Memory Politics, Cultures and Laws

1. The Slow Transformation of a Marginal Problem into a Significant Challenge: Right-wing Historical Revisionism in Germany since the 1990s

Christoph Cornelissen

2. Political Transitions and Memory Wars in Italy from the 1990s to the Present: The Challenge of the Right-wing

Filippo Focardi

3. Politics, Policies and Contested Legacies in Spain

Julio Ponce Alberca

4. Vichy. A “Broken” Memory of an Ambiguous Past: Contemporary Rhetorical Issues

Renata Latała

5. In Search of an Ideology to Legitimize the Power of Contemporary Russia

Adam Bosiacki

6. The Prohibition of Negationism in Poland (Article 55 of the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance) and Questioning the Criminal Legacy of Totalitarian Systems

Tomasz Scheffler

7. The Memory Politics of Communism in the Discourse of the Hungarian Right after 1989

Tadeusz Kopyś

Part 2: Memory Narratives

8. Russian Society and Official Heroic Narratives about World War II

Małgorzata Abassy

9. The Trauma of Trianon in the Past and the Present - Nostalgia in the Service of Politics

Andrea Schmidt

10. The Revolt of the Mnemonic Warriors: Mnemonic Constitutionalism, Mnemocracy, and Making Contested Legacy a True Story by Law and Justice (PiS).

Grzegorz Pożarlik

11. Anti-Communism as a Legitimising Element in the Political Narrative of the National Rebirth of Poland

Ewa Kozerska

12. Learning to Mobilize Memory in the Service of Illiberalism: Poland and Hungary Serve as Models for the Slovenian Far Right

Peter J. Verovšek

13. How has the Reappearance of an Extreme Right Political Party in Spain affected the Memory of the Holocaust and Francoism?

Marta Simó

14. Dangerous Victims? Teaching Nationalist Youth about the Holocaust. Challenges and Strategies in Poland

Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs and Adam Musiał

Part 3: Contested lieux de mémoire

15. Reviving the Memory of Salazar? The Legacy of the Estado Novo in Contemporary Portugal

Karolina Golemo

16. The Past That Does Not Want to Pass Away? A Few Remarks on the Debate Surrounding the Project to Establish a Museum of Fascism in Predappio

Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas

17. Difficult Heritage: The Case of German Urban Heritage in Polish Cities

Paweł Kubicki

Index

Biography

Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas is Associate Professor of Contemporary History. She teaches at the Institute of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art History, Media, and Performing Arts at the Sapienza University of Rome and at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her previous publications include The Right-Wing Critique of Europe: Nationalist, Sovereignist, and Right-Wing Populist Attitudes to the EU (Routledge 2022, edited with Francesco Berti).

Grzegorz Pożarlik is Assistant Professor and a former deputy director of the Jagiellonian University Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. His current research pursues critical exploration of border governance insecuritization as well as far-right symbolic construction of memory politics in Central Europe.