Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Foreword ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special? 1
7. Part I Memory Dialogues and Monologues
8. Chapter 1 The Transformative Power of Memory 23
9. Chapter 2 Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for ‘Eastern Europe’ 38
10. Part II Eastern Europe as a (Unique) Memory Framework?
11. Chapter 3 The (non-)Travelling Concept of Les Lieux de Mémoire: Central and Eastern European Perspectives 59
12. Chapter 4 Ain’t Nothing Special 77
13. Chapter 5 Biographical and Collective Memory: Mutual Influences in Central and Eastern European Context 96
14. Part III Eastern European Memories Facing Historical Change and Cultural Transformations
15. Chapter 6 The Path of Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe 115
16. Chapter 7 The Rise of an East European Community of Memory? On Lobbying for the Gulag Memory via Brussels 131
17. Chapter 8 Two Concepts of Victimhood: Property Restitution in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 150
18. Chapter 9 Shared Memory Culture? Nationalizing the ‘Great Patriotic War’ in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands 169
19. Chapter 10 History, Politics and Memory (Ukraine 1990s – 2000s) 193
20. Chapter 11 Walking Memory through City Space in Sevastopol, Crimea 212
21. Part IV Foci of Memories in Eastern Europe
22. Chapter 12 The Second World War in the Memory of Contemporary Polish Society 231
23. Chapter 13 Auschwitz and Katyn in Political Bondage: The Process of Shaping Memory in Communist Poland 246
24. Chapter 14 Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German Lieu de Mémoire? On the Asymmetry of Memories 264
25. Chapter 15 Remembering Collectivization in Bulgaria 283
26. Chapter 16 Uses and Misuses of Memory: Dealing with the Communist Past in Postcommunist Bulgaria and Romania 299
27. Bibliography 317
28. Index 359