Remembrance, History, and Justice

Titel: Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies / Bogdan Iacob, Vladimir Tismaneanu
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Veröffentlicht: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2015
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9789633860939 ; 9789633860922
Zusammenfassung: The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering creating collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that have emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts, such as Germany, Romania, Russia, and others. The volume is an up-to-date reassessment of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice gives the reader insights that examine the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The analysis is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice