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Mark, James

 
9780300167160: The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe
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ISBN 10 : 0300167164 ISBN 13 : 9780300167160
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2011

Synopsis

While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious peoples revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new democratic societies are still divided by the past. While some view 1989 as a betrayal and defeat, and continue an unfinished struggle against the former regime, others seek to heal the divisions of history, and ex-Communists proclaim themselves to be the real liberators from dictatorship. This book also presents the voices of ordinary people who lived through Communism to uncover the variety of ways in which they now come to terms with their choices and experiences. Drawing on a broad range of themes and sources - speeches, public ritual, protest, international disputes, museums, memorials, forensic archaeology, secret police archives, and interviews - this is the first work to integrate the study of politics, culture, and social memory across east-central Europe.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Mark is Senior Lecturer in History at Exeter University, and a graduate of the East European Centre at St Antonys College, Oxford. Formerly a Visiting Student at the Central European University, Budapest, and a specialist in oral history, he has authored a number of articles on the Red Army and Communist Hungary. He has an ongoing project on the memory of the Second Word War in Hungarian and Romanian communities in Transylvania, and another on the impact of 1968 in Hungary.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300167164
ISBN 13 
9780300167160
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
344
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