Chapter 18 Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. Introduction. A European Memory? 1
7. Part I Europe, Memory, Politics and History: A Normative and Theoretical Framing
8. Section 1 Normative Perspectives and Lines of Division of European Memory Constructions
9. Chapter 1 On ‘European Memory’: Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks 25
10. Chapter 2 The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanisation 38
11. Chapter 3 Halecki Revisited: Europe’s Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance 56
12. Chapter 4 Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics? 64
13. Section 2 Towards a Fluid Conceptualisation of Memory Constructs
14. Chapter 5 Culture, Politics, Palimpsest: Theses on Memory and Society 79
15. Chapter 6 Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance: Reflections on Memory and History 87
16. Chapter 7 Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories 98
17. Part II Remembering Europe’s Dark Pasts: Four Fields of Commemoration
18. Section 3 Remembering the Second World War
19. Chapter 8 Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe, 1945–2005 119
20. Chapter 9 Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance: (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 137
21. Chapter 10 A Victory Celebrated: Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation 147
22. Section 4 Towards a Europeanisation of the Commemoration of the Holocaust
23. Chapter 11 Remembering Europe’s Heart of Darkness: Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies 163
24. Chapter 12 Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 175
25. Chapter 13 A Europeanisation of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of the Film Europa, Europa 191
26. Chapter 14 Italian Commemoration of the Shoah: A Survivor-Oriented Narrative and Its Impact on Politics and Practices of Remembrance 204
27. Section 5 Coming to Terms with Europe’s Communist Past
28. Chapter 15 Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States 219
29. Chapter 16 Eurocommunism: Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe 233
30. Chapter 17 The Memory of the Dead Body 247
31. Chapter 18 Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe 260
32. Section 6 Coming to Terms with Europe’s Colonial Past
33. Chapter 19 Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence in France 275
34. Chapter 20 Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-Speaking Minorities at the North Calotte 294
35. Conclusion. Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanisation of Memories 309
36. References 321
37. Index 347