Uilleam Blacker & Alexander Etkind 
Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe 

It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies.

Table of Content

Introduction; Uilleam Blacker and Alexander Etkind PART I: DIVIDED MEMORY 1. Europe’s Divided Memory; Aleida Assmann 2. Human Rights and European Remembrance; Jay Winter 3. European Memory: Between Jewish and Cosmopolitan; Natan Sznaider PART II: POST-COLONIAL, POST-SOCIALIST 4. Between Paris and Warsaw: Multidirectional Memory, Ethics and Historical Responsibility; Michael Rothberg 5. Theory as Memory Practice: The Divided Discourse on Poland’s Postcoloniality; Dirk Uffelmann 6. Occupation vs Colonization: Post-Soviet Latvia and the Provincialization of Europe; Kevin M. F. Platt PART III: MOURNING MATTERS 7. Murder in the Cemetery: Memorial Clashes over the Victims of the Soviet-Polish Wars; Andrzej Nowak 8. Living among the Ghosts of Others: Urban Postmemory in Eastern Europe; Uilleam Blacker 9. Towards Cosmopolitan Mourning: Belarusian Literature between History and Politics; Simon Lewis PART IV: MEMORY WARS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 10. Why Digital Memory Studies Should Not Overlook Eastern Europe’s Memory Wars; Ellen Rutten 11. Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Ukraine (1991-2010); Andriy Portnov 12. The Struggle for History: The Past as a Limited Resource; Ilya Kalinin

About the author

Aleida Assman, University of Konstanz, Germany Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Mischa Gabowitsch, Einstein Forum, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA Ilya Kalinin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia Simon Lewis, Kings College, University of Cambridge, UK Andrzej Nowak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Andrei Portnov, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Natan Sznaider, Academic College, Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel Jay Winter, Yale University, USA Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK