Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe

1. Introduction
Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind

Part I. Divided Memory

2. Europe’s Divided Memory
Aleida Assmann

3. Human Rights and European Remembrance
Jay Winter

4. European Memory: Between Jewish and Cosmopolitan
Natan Sznaider

Part II. Postcolonial, Postsocialist

5. Between Paris and Warsaw: Multidirectional Memory, Ethics, and Historical Responsibility
Michael Rothberg

6. Theory as Memory Practice: The Divided Discourse on Poland’s Postcoloniality
Dirk Uffelmann

7. Occupation versus Colonization: Post-Soviet Latvia and the Provincialization of Europe
Kevin M. F. Platt

Part III. Mourning Matters

8. Murder in the Cemetery: Memorial Clashes over the Victims of the Soviet-Polish Wars
Andrzej Nowak

9. Living among the Ghosts of Others: Urban Postmemory in Eastern Europe
Uilleam Blacker

10. Toward Cosmopolitan Mourning: Belarusian Literature between History and Politics
Simon Lewis

Part IV. Memory Wars in the Twenty-First Century

11. Why Digital Memory Studies Should Not Overlook Eastern Europe’s Memory Wars
Ellen Rutten

12. Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Ukraine (1991–2010)
Andriy Portnov

13. The Struggle for History: The Past as a Limited Resource
Ilya Kalinin

Keywords: History, European History, Cultural History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Social History, Historiography and Method