TY - BOOK ID - 8857382 TI - Remembrance, history, and justice : coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies AU - Tismaneanu, Vladimir AU - Iacob, Bogdan PY - 2015 SN - 9789633861011 9789633860922 PB - Budapest : Central European university press, DB - UniCat KW - COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 930 KW - EASTERN EUROPE -- 930 KW - DICTATORSHIP -- 930 KW - POST-COMMUNISM -- 930 KW - SOCIAL JUSTICE -- 930 KW - Collective memory KW - Memory KW - Democratization KW - Social justice KW - Post-communism KW - Fascism KW - Dictatorship KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Politics and government KW - Historiography KW - Social aspects. KW - Political aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8857382 AB - "The present book 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. Subsequently, the contributors deal with trauma and the reconstitution of democratic communities, with the multiple publics of historical inquiry in the context of a shift from authoritarianism to pluralism, with the competing narratives resultant of the process of Aufarbeitung, and last but not least, with the juridical and investigative efforts to acknowledge and punish the crimes and abuses of the past. It brings together historiography with memory studies, intellectual and legal history, political analysis with theoretical insight. It integrates local and regional experiences with traumatic pasts into a global structure that offers the possibility of more general conclusions about the memory of a century touched by the 'reek of cruelty'. The authors situate the process of coming to terms with the past (communism, fascism, authoritarianism, failed democracies) in Eastern Europe (including the Western Balkans) and the former Soviet space within the larger context of discussing the memory and history of the post-war period. At the same time, the European overview is compared with other cases of post-authoritarian transitions such as those in Latin America, South Africa, Japan, and the Middle East. The result is a clustered big picture of practices of remembrance, reckoning, and historiographical reevaluation"--Provided by publisher. ER -