History of Communism in Europe: Vol. 6 / 2015 | Dalia Bathory, Various Authors

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FOREWORDRadu Preda: What Must We Not ForgetARGUMENTDalia BATHORY: Authoritarian and Post-authoritarian Practices of Building Collective Memory in Central and Eastern EuropeAbstract: Among the most used expressions in scholarly articles concerning collective memory, is “dealing with the past”, or its more specific alternative, “dealing with the traumatic past”. This is a rather inexact formulation, because what scholars, artist, curators deal with is not the past in itself but the manner in which it is narrated and represented, or remembered, reconstructed. A series of questions are triggered…