History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Memory Games

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Would-be Guardians of Memory: An Association of Camp Inmates of the 1992–95 Bosnian War under Ethnographic Scrutiny....Pages 23-38
The Russian Orthodox Church and Reconciliation with the Soviet Past....Pages 39-53
‘You Still Live Far from the Motherland, but You Are Her Son, Her Daughter.’ War Memory and Soviet Mental Space (1945–2011)....Pages 54-67
Pilgrimages to the Edge of the Fallen Empire — An Anthropological Study of Finnish and Hungarian Pilgrimages to Second World War Memorials in Post-Soviet Russia....Pages 68-85
Memory at the Margins: The Shoah in Ukraine (1991–2011)....Pages 86-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
The Elites’ Games in the Field of Memory: Insights from Lithuania....Pages 105-120
The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident and Identity Strategies in Belarus....Pages 121-135
Dealing with the Past in Central and Southern European Democracies: Comparing Spain and Poland....Pages 136-154
Institutions of National Memory in Post-Communist Europe: From Transitional Justice to Political Uses of Biographies (1989–2010)....Pages 155-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Memory Wars and Reconciliation in the Ukrainian–Polish Borderlands: Geopolitics of Memory from a Local Perspective....Pages 173-192
Memory of the Soviet Union and European Norms on Diversity as Rival Frameworks for Ethnic Boundary Making: A Case Study in Latvia’s Russian-speaking Schools....Pages 193-208
Symbolic Policies versus European Reconciliation: The Hungarian ‘Status Law’....Pages 209-225
The Rejection of International Criminal Law in West Germany after the Second World War....Pages 226-241
History as a Tool for Foreign Policy in the Baltic States after Independence....Pages 242-256
Conclusion....Pages 257-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-270