Memory Archipelago of the Communist Past: Public Narratives and Personal Recollections (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Navigating the Memory Archipelago
	What Do we Talk about when we Talk about Memory?
	How to Look into Memory: Narrative as Lens
	Grand Narratives and Life Stories
	References
Part I: Politics of Memory and Memory Cultures
	Chapter 2: The New ‘Grand Narrative’: Coping with the Past
		Politics of Memory: “Holocaustization” of Communism?
		Mnemo-Political Regionalization: Two European Cultures of Memory
		References
	Chapter 3: Politics of Justice: Transitional Justice
		Legislative Condemnation and Criminalization of the Communist Regime
		Justice for the Victims
			Rehabilitation
			Restitution of Property
		Perpetrators’ Accountability—from the Judicial to the Moral Sphere
			Criminal Prosecution
			Lustration
		References
	Chapter 4: Politics of Recognition
		Establishing the Facts: The Archival Revolution
		Politics of Truth and Institutions of Memory
			Constructing a New Historical Narrative: Historians’ Commissions
			Institutes of Memory
		The Emergence of Memory Cultures: Memorialization and Musealization
			The Memory of the Victims in Public Spaces
			Museum Narratives of Communism
		References
Part II: Memory Narratives and Mnemonic Communities
	Chapter 5: ‘Thorns in the Spirit’: Traumatic Narratives
		Trauma and Memory
		Collective Trauma? Is It Possible?
			Communist Repressions as Cultural Trauma
		Belene as Topos in the Traumatic Narrative
			Public Memory: Sites, Topoi, Plots
			Local Memory in Belene: Topoi, Tropes, Plot Lines
				The Community Narrative: “Here We Are Split in Two”
				The Past: Floods, Mud, Polenta
				Socialist Reforms: Housing, Asphalt, Sidewalks
				The Island: “Sheer Heaven, Golden in Our Eyes”
			The Camp in Local Memory: Traumatic Repression or Limited Rationality
			Edification of Memory?
			Bare Life and damnatio memoriae
			The Politics of Pity and Local Public Life
		References
			Memories and Memoirs
	Chapter 6: ‘Sorrow, Almost Hope’: Nostalgic Narratives
		The Concept—From Medicine to Cultural Critique
		Nostalgia and Neostalgia in the Post-socialist Context
		Retrospective Mirages: Nostalgia as a Biographical Phenomenon
			Everyday Socialism
			Serenity and Security
			Solidarity in the Micro-community: One’s Own, Not the Regime
			Lost Values
			Homo Nostalgicus without a Stigma
		On the Normality of Post-communist Nostalgia
			Facing the Challenges of Transition
			Nostalgic Generation?
		On the Abnormality of Post-communist Nostalgia
		References
	Chapter 7: Conclusion: Is There Hope for Memory?
		References
Index