9781412804653-1412804655-Memory and Totalitarianism (Memory and Narrative)

Memory and Totalitarianism (Memory and Narrative)

ISBN-13: 9781412804653
ISBN-10: 1412804655
Author: Luisa Passerini
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 198 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781412804653
ISBN-10: 1412804655
Author: Luisa Passerini
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 198 pages

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Memory and Totalitarianism (Memory and Narrative) (ISBN-13: 9781412804653 and ISBN-10: 1412804655), written by authors Luisa Passerini, was published by Routledge in 2005. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Creativity & Genius (Psychology & Counseling) books. You can easily purchase or rent Memory and Totalitarianism (Memory and Narrative) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Creativity & Genius books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. The invasion of Moscow's streets by Russian people rejecting an attempted coup d'etat was the culmination of a process that had been initiated years before and raised crucial questions: To what extent can these events be considered the end of an era stretching from World War I to the 1980s, when Europe experienced many forms of dictatorship? To what extent can the various forms of dictatorship Europe experienced in the twentieth century be grouped together? Can any sort of affinity be established between them?

The new introduction to the paperback edition of this volume in the Memory and Narrative series, Leydesdorff and Crownshaw underline the fundamental importance of the struggle for memory and its meaning. Memory and Totalitarianism explores the remembered experiences of individuals living under different totalitarian regimes, and examines the construction of memory in the aftermath of those regimes' collapse. It attempts to situate the findings of oral history in the context of contemporary memory. It wrestles with the most painful memories that Europeans have of this century at the end of the Cold War. These memories compare with oral history's research into such experiences as racist attitudes against blacks in the South, or the cultural and psychological effects of apartheid in South Africa, or the Aborigines' claim to their own history and to a new idea of history in Australia.

Totalitarianisms are products of the twentieth century that go far beyond earlier manifestations of absolutism and autocracy in their effort to completely control political, social, and intellectual life. They were made possible by modern industrialism and technology. Therefore the theme of the book expands to include many other experiences that relate to totalitarian mentalities.

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