Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction: the power of memory, the memory of power and the power over memory......Page 15
Two post-war periods......Page 17
Why memory?......Page 27
Which memory?......Page 33
Memory and power: the uses of the past in domestic and international politics......Page 39
An ethics of memory?......Page 45
Part 1 Myth, memory and analogy in foreign policy......Page 51
1 Memory of sovereignty and sovereignty over memory: Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine, 1939–1999......Page 53
History and memory (1939–47)......Page 54
The Polish–Ukrainian civil war, 1943–7......Page 55
The transfer of Vilnius......Page 60
Two types of national memory (1945–89)......Page 63
Communist power and collective memory (1945–89)......Page 65
Sovereignty over memory (1989–99)......Page 69
2 Myth, memory and policy in France since 1945......Page 73
France and the ‘Anglo-Saxons’......Page 74
Franco-German relations......Page 79
France and empire......Page 84
Conclusion......Page 88
3 The power of memory and memories of power: the cultural parameters of German foreign policy-making since 1945......Page 90
Memory, political culture and foreign policy formation – a theoretical model......Page 93
The formation of German historical memory and foreign policy, 1945–89......Page 98
German foreign policy and historical memory after the fall of the Berlin Wall......Page 103
Conclusions......Page 111
4 The past in the present: British imperial memories and the European question......Page 114
5 Europe’s post-Cold War memory of Russia: cui bono?......Page 135
Cold War discourse on central Europe: a memory of something else......Page 136
The break-up of Yalta: who lost eastern Europe and who won central Europe?......Page 137
The memory of Russia......Page 140
Conclusion: Europe’s pangolin......Page 148
6 Memory, the media and NATO: information intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina......Page 151
Background on Bosnia and the role of the media in the conflict......Page 155
The Dayton Accords and the media......Page 157
Implementation of the accords......Page 159
The seizure of transmitters......Page 160
Information intervention, memory and the marketplace for loyalties......Page 165
Conclusion......Page 167
Part 2 Memory and power in domestic affairs......Page 169
7 The past is another country: myth and memory in post-war Europe......Page 171
The revenge of history......Page 183
Goodbye to all that?......Page 193
8 The emergence and legacies of divided memory: Germany and the Holocaust since 1945......Page 198
Conclusion......Page 217
9 Unimagined communities: the power of memory and the conflict in the former Yugoslavia......Page 220
Cycles of Yugoslav memory......Page 221
Myth, memory and Messianic time......Page 223
International memories......Page 227
10 Translating memories of war and co-belligerency into politics: the Italian post-war experience......Page 237
Memories and politics......Page 238
Selective memories......Page 239
Memories and allegiances......Page 241
Memories of the end and new myths......Page 243
A regime of national amnesia......Page 246
A ‘historic compromise of memories’?......Page 248
Reclaiming memories......Page 251
11 Institutionalising the past: shifting memories of nationhood in German education and immigration legislation......Page 258
National identity and the professionalisation of pedagogues in West Germany......Page 259
National identity and macro-political developments in East Germany......Page 263
The politics of immigration......Page 267
The post-war years......Page 268
The decline of ethnos......Page 270
The return of the nation?......Page 272
Concluding remarks......Page 276
12 Trials, purges and history lessons: treating a dificult past in post-communist Europe......Page 279
I......Page 280
II......Page 282
III......Page 283
IV......Page 284
V......Page 293
Index......Page 297