European Cultural Memory Post-89

Download or read book European Cultural Memory Post-89 written by Conny Mithander and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive mapping of how practices of cultural memory in post-communist countries and other late newcomers to the European Union have been affected due to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism. The essays cover Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, the unified Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden as well as Europe’s significant Other, Russia. The practices analysed range from films, novels and theatre to museums and state organizations such as memory institutes and pedagogical campaigns.