Representations of Collective Memory in Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia and Nagorno Karabakh: The Political, Memory and Power

Contents
About the Author
About the Translator
List of Diagrams
List of Images
List of Tables
Chapter 1: The South Caucasus as a Space of Memory
	Scope, Aims, Hypotheses
		Reasons for Addressing the Topic
		What Is This Book About?
		Scope and Field of Study
		Hypotheses
		Aims
	Around Paradigm, Terminology and Limitations
		Paradigmatic and Methodological Framework
		Some Definitional, Terminological and Linguistic Remarks
		Limitations
	Structure of the Book
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Structure of the Memory Discourse of Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh
	The Ambiguity of Collective Memory
		The Concept of Collective Memory
		Collective Memory and History
		Communicative and Cultural Memory vis-à-vis Collective Memory
		Collective Memory vis-à-vis Politics of Memory and Counter-Memory
		Memory and its Representations, Reflections, Reconstructions and the Imaginary
	Memory vis-à-vis the Relation of Power
		Memory and Forgetting
		Memory, Space and the Imaginary
		Memory, Discourse, Hegemony
		The Political of Memory
	Structure of the Field of Study
		Dimensions of Remembering and Forgetting
		Between Institutional Memory and Counter-Memory
		Structure of the Research
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: History and the Present: Sovietisation and Post-Sovietism of Memory
	The Issue of Sovietisation and the Sovietisation of the Space of Memory
	Sovietisation of the South Caucasus: A Narrow View
		Establishing Soviet Power and Korenizatsiia
		Armenia
		Nagorno-Karabakh
		Georgia
		Abkhazia
	Sovietisation of the Memory Space: A Broad Approach
		Towards National Communism and Imperial Colonialism
		Structure of The Political of Soviet Memory
		Symbolic Elements of the Sovietisation of Memory
			The Great Patriotic War
			Victory Day
			Lenin, the October Revolution, and Local Analogies
			Repressed and Forgotten Elements
	Sovietisation of Memory in the South Caucasus
		Local Soviet Memory
		Pre-Soviet References in the Soviet Space of Memory
		Repressed Symbolic Elements in the Armenian Memory Space
		Repressed Symbolic Elements in the Georgian Memory Space
	De-Sovietisation as Rupture, Process, and Structure
		Remnants of the Sovietisation of Memory
		Reconstruction of the Elites
		Legacy of the Great Patriotic War
		Between Soviet Rationality and Religious Anti-Modernism
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Dimensions of Memory in Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh
	Postcolonialism, Post-Socialism and Post-Imperialism vis-à-vis Memory
		The Postcoloniality of Post-Sovietism
		The Postcolonial Dimension of Memory
		Dependency: Subordinated Memory
			Dry Bridge
			Stalin Monument in Zemo Alvani
			Lenin Monument and Commemoration of the Great Patriotic War
		Nostalgia, Irony, Duality
	Memory and Conflict
		Antagonistic Memory
		The Conflictual Dimension of Memory
		Conflict as a Site of Memory
			Memory of War and Memory of Victory: Shusha
			Memory of Emptiness and Lack: Aghdam and Vank
		Permanent State of Emergency
	Memory and Community
		Memory as a Consolidating Factor
		The Communal Dimension of Memory
		Creation: Community and Memory
			Gagra: From Individual Commemoration to Official Memory
			Park of Glory in Sukhum
			Everyday Creation of Ethnicity and Nationhood
			Destruction of Gali and Ochamchire
		A New Community
	The Imaginary of Memory
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Between Institutional Memory and Counter-Memory
	Institutional Memory and the New Regime of Truth
		Soviet Occupation Museum in Tbilisi
		Power/Knowledge. Reductive Institutional Memory
	The Individual Practice of The Political of Memory
		Tbilisi Printing Museum
		Counter-Memory, Forgetting, and Rejection
	The Georgian Junction Narrative: Ambivalent Memory
		Stalin Museum in Gori
		The Lingering Stalin
	The Armenian Junction Narrative: Total Memory
		Armenian Genocide Museum
		Identity of Trauma and Liberation
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Conclusion