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European Cultural Memory Post-89
This volume is the first comprehensive mapping of how practices of cultural memory in post-communist countries and other late newcomers to the European Union have been affected due to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism. The essays cover Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, the unified Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden as well as Europe's significant Other, Russia. The practices analysed range from films, novels and theatre to museums and state organizations such as memory institutes and pedagogical campaigns.
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FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO THE GULAG: THE CRIMES OF NAZISM AND COMMUNISM IN SWEDISH POST-89 MEMORY POLITICS
In comparison with many other European countries, Sweden constitutes a special case when dealing with Europe's dark past. Each country has a characteristic feature in this respect, but Sweden differs in several ways. A distinctive feature is that in the 1990s Sweden assumed a great guilt regarding the Holocaust, although Sweden's guilt is not as great when compared with other countries. Another distinctive feature about Sweden is that Communism and its criminal history are very sensitive issues, particularly among intellectuals, despite the lack of concrete experience of Communism. In Sweden, as well as in most other countries, there is widespread consensus about Nazi evil, both as ideology and practice. The crimes of Communism are, however, a minefield where the debaters prompdy take on dogmatic ideological oudooks. Consequendy, in Sweden it is not possible to agree about the role of Communism in the country's memory politics. This asymmetry in Swedish memory politics is obvious in the reactions to the government's Living History project and its information campaigns about the crimes of Communism and Nazism. The educational campaign about Nazism (1997) didn't cause any protests, while the information campaign about communism (2006) provoked ample dissension and ideological deadlocks. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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INTRODUCTION
[...]post-1989 encompasses a range of years and events that point both backwards and forwards and includes the end of the Cold War, the unification of Germany, the collapse of Soviet Union, as well as the enlargement of the European Union; episodes that implied a profound cultural, geographical and political remapping of Europe. Whereas in 1945 there was much that was in need of being forgotten, 1989 required a lot to be remembered. [...]the 1990s witnessed the undertaking of several revisions of the post-war memory culture, both officially due to state interventions and demands from the European Union, and locally through initiatives by individual actions and minority groups.
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