Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past

1. Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Past of Mass Dictatorship
Jie-Hyun Lim, Peter Lambert

Part I. Entangled Memory and Comparative History

2. The Predicaments of Culture: War, Dictatorship and Modernity in Early Post-War West Germany and Japan
Sebastian Conrad

3. Victimhood Nationalism in the Memory of Mass Dictatorship
Jie-Hyun Lim

4. Creating a Victimised Nation: The Politics of the Austrian People’s Courts and High Treason
Hiroko Mizuno

Part II. The Dialectical Interplay of History and Memory

5. Ukraine Faces Its Soviet Past: History versus Policy versus Memory
Volodymyr V. Kravchenko

6. History and Responsibility: On the Debates on the Shōwa History
Naoki Sakai

7. Widukind or Karl der Große? Perspectives on Historical Culture and Memory in the Third Reich and Post-War West Germany
Peter Lambert

Part III. Pluralizing Memories: Fragmented, Contested, Resisted

8. The Suppression and Recall of Colonial Memory: Manchukuo and the Cold War in the Two Koreas
Suk-Jung Han

9. Accomplices of Violence: Guilt and Purification through Altruism among the Moscow Human Rights Activists of the 1960s and 1970s
Barbara Walker

10. Consuming Fragments of Mao Zedong: The Chairman’s Final Two Decades at the Helm
Michael Schoenhals

11. The Lived Space of Recollection: How Holocaust Memorials Are Conceived Differently Today
Jörg H. Gleiter

Nyckelord: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Political History, Social History, Modern History, Cultural History