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Museums of Communism : New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Indiana University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (443 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253050311
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Museums of CommunismDDC classification:
  • 947.000904074
LOC classification:
  • D2.5 .N677 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- From Communist Museums to Museums of Communism: An Introduction / Stephen M. Norris -- Exhibit A: Hall of Genocide, Occupation, and Terror -- 1. Sovereign Pain: Liberation and Suffering in the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė -- 2. Visualizing Revisionism: Europeanized Anticommunism at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest / Máté Zombory -- 3. Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism / Stephen M. Norris -- 4. Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Steven A. Barnes -- 5. Riga's Cheka House: From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? / Katja Wezel -- Exhibit B: Hall of National Tragedies -- 6. Sensing the Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past / Stephen M. Norris -- 7. Enforcing National Memory, Remembering Famine's Victims: The National Museum "Holodomor Victims Memorial" / Daria Mattingly -- Exhibit C: Hall of Everyday Life -- 8. The Czech Museum of Communism: What National Narrative for the Past? / Muriel Blaive -- 9. Stasiland or Spreewald Pickles? The Battle over the GDR in Berlin's DDR Museum / Stephen M. Norris -- Exhibit D: Hall of Russian Memory -- 10. Commemorating and Forgetting Soviet Repression: Moscow's State Museum of GULAG History / Jeffrey Hardy -- 11. The Butovskii Shooting Range: History of an Unfinished Museum / Julie Fedor and Tomas Sniegon -- 12. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: Nostalgia for a Socialist Childhood / Roman Abramov -- Exhibit E: Rotating Exhibits -- 13. A Museum of a Museum? Fused and Parallel Historical Narratives in the Joseph Stalin State Museum / Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen -- 14. Between Occupations and Freedoms: Memory, Narrative, and Practice at Vabamu in Tallinn, Estonia / A. Lorraine Weekes -- Index.
Summary: From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic museums of everyday life in Russia, the sites considered offer new ways of understanding the challenges of separating memory and myth.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- From Communist Museums to Museums of Communism: An Introduction / Stephen M. Norris -- Exhibit A: Hall of Genocide, Occupation, and Terror -- 1. Sovereign Pain: Liberation and Suffering in the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė -- 2. Visualizing Revisionism: Europeanized Anticommunism at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest / Máté Zombory -- 3. Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism / Stephen M. Norris -- 4. Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Steven A. Barnes -- 5. Riga's Cheka House: From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? / Katja Wezel -- Exhibit B: Hall of National Tragedies -- 6. Sensing the Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past / Stephen M. Norris -- 7. Enforcing National Memory, Remembering Famine's Victims: The National Museum "Holodomor Victims Memorial" / Daria Mattingly -- Exhibit C: Hall of Everyday Life -- 8. The Czech Museum of Communism: What National Narrative for the Past? / Muriel Blaive -- 9. Stasiland or Spreewald Pickles? The Battle over the GDR in Berlin's DDR Museum / Stephen M. Norris -- Exhibit D: Hall of Russian Memory -- 10. Commemorating and Forgetting Soviet Repression: Moscow's State Museum of GULAG History / Jeffrey Hardy -- 11. The Butovskii Shooting Range: History of an Unfinished Museum / Julie Fedor and Tomas Sniegon -- 12. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: Nostalgia for a Socialist Childhood / Roman Abramov -- Exhibit E: Rotating Exhibits -- 13. A Museum of a Museum? Fused and Parallel Historical Narratives in the Joseph Stalin State Museum / Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen -- 14. Between Occupations and Freedoms: Memory, Narrative, and Practice at Vabamu in Tallinn, Estonia / A. Lorraine Weekes -- Index.

From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic museums of everyday life in Russia, the sites considered offer new ways of understanding the challenges of separating memory and myth.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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