Open Access«Overcoming the past» in Central and Eastern Europe: main tendencies
Author(s) -
Алла Киридон
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
êvropejsʹkì ìstoričnì studìï
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2524-048X
DOI - 10.17721/2524-048x.2016.04.126-143
Subject(s) - genocide , the holocaust , politics , collective memory , politics of memory , east central europe , ethnic group , political science , political economy , history , sociology , law
Transformation of memory in post-bipolar world inevitably led to the revival and search (creation) of new individual and collective memory, to the aggravation of attention the memories of witnesses tragedies of the twentieth 143 century – the Holocaust, the Stalinist repressions other ethnic and political genocide. Every country has its own system of «overcoming the past». The politics of memory is one of the important factor in this complicated area of creating of new relationships, which has features in Central and Eastern Europe.