Remembrance, History, and Justice Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies
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ArticlePublication details: Central European University Press 2015Description: 1 electronic resource (516 p.)Content type: - text
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- 9789633860922
- 9789633860939
- 9789633861011
- Time period qualifiers
- c 1500 onwards to present day
- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social and ethical issues
- History and Archaeology
- History
- History: specific events and topics
- Social and cultural history
- Eastern Europe
- collective memory
- democratization
- dictatorship
- fascism
- historiography
- memory politics
- political aspects
- politics and government
- post-communism
- social aspects
- social justice
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The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, or collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often the premises for and the specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts. The present collection of essays is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The volume is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice.
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