Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums

Re-Visualizing the Recent Past

Constantin Iordachi, Péter Apor, Constantin Iordachi, Péter Apor

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781350266421
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350103719
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Studi museali

This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences, and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at regional and European level.

Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums argues that museums have a huge influence on the image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they use a vast array of media tools, visual tactics and commercial strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the past and to shape the attitude of public opinion.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• 1 Studying Museums of Communism: Recent Trends and Perspectives Constantin Iordachi and Péter Apor
• Part 1 History, Memory, and the Politics of History in Eastern European Museums
• Part 2 Museums of Occupation
• Part 3 Museums of Communism
• Part 4 Visualizing the Recent Past: Practices of Representation
• Select Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index