Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Past of Mass Dictatorship....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Predicaments of Culture: War, Dictatorship and Modernity in Early Post-War West Germany and Japan....Pages 17-35
Victimhood Nationalism in the Memory of Mass Dictatorship....Pages 36-61
Creating a Victimised Nation: The Politics of the Austrian People’s Courts and High Treason....Pages 62-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Ukraine Faces Its Soviet Past: History versus Policy versus Memory....Pages 87-119
History and Responsibility: On the Debates on the Shōwa History....Pages 120-138
Widukind or Karl der Große? Perspectives on Historical Culture and Memory in the Third Reich and Post-War West Germany....Pages 139-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
The Suppression and Recall of Colonial Memory: Manchukuo and the Cold War in the Two Koreas....Pages 165-179
Accomplices of Violence: Guilt and Purification through Altruism among the Moscow Human Rights Activists of the 1960s and 1970s....Pages 180-203
Consuming Fragments of Mao Zedong: The Chairman’s Final Two Decades at the Helm....Pages 204-222
The Lived Space of Recollection: How Holocaust Memorials Are Conceived Differently Today....Pages 223-239
Back Matter....Pages 240-253