商品簡介
Remembering Communism responds to, or rather apprehends, the transformation of an "objective" reality into a subjective one. Concentrating on genres of representation in Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine, the collection traces explanatory modes and models following the collapse of "real socialism." Oral histories are taken at different sites and among diverse groups, including factory workers, village inhabitants, and political emigres. Subsequent sections reassess the period through archives, memoirs, cinema, and monuments.
"Remembering Communism suggests a different kind of living memory, one that contrasts everyday life with ideological purpose, and recognizes how ideology functioned differently back then, and functions differently in memory today. By directly and explicitly focusing on how different genres of memory reflect different subjectivities, power relations, and contests, then and now, Remembering Communism provides an invaluable contribution to contemporary historical and sociological understanding."
作者簡介
Michael Kennedy, Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author, most recently, of Bones of Contention.
