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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe chapters do present a series of stimulating (and sometimes provocative) case studies about the situation in particular countries. It is a book which will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers with interests in the post-communist world and more broadly in issues of post-communist memory politics.
-- Duncan Light * Eurasian Geography and Economics *
Both empirically and theoretically, this volume manages the rare trick of adding up to much more than the sum of its parts; it is essential reading for all scholars and students of Eastern European memory politics and museology.
-- Polly Jones - University College, Oxford * The Russian Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Communist Museums to Museums of Communism: An Introduction / Stephen M. Norris
Exhibit A: Hall of Genocide, Occupation, and Terror
1. Sovereignty, Terror, and Suffering in the Museum of Genocide Victims in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė
2. Visualizing Revisionism: Europeanized Anticommunism at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest / Máté Zombory
3. Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism / Stephen M. Norris
4. Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Steven Barnes
5. Riga's Cheka House: From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? / Katja Wezel
Exhibit B: Hall of National Tragedies
6. Sensing the Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past / Stephen M. Norris
7. Enforcing National Memory, Remembering Famine's Victims: The National Museum "Holodomor Victims Memorial"/ Daria Mattingly
Exhibit C: Hall of Everyday Life
8. The Czech Museum of Communism: What National Narrative for the Past? / Muriel Blaive
9. Stasiland or Spreewald Pickles? The Battle over the GDR in Berlin's DDR Museum / Stephen M. Norris
Exhibit D: Hall of Russian Memory
10. Commemorating and Forgetting Soviet Repression: Moscow's State Museum of GULAG History / Jeffrey Hardy
11. The Butovskii Shooting Range: History of an Unfinished Museum / Julie Fedor and Tomas Sniegon
12. Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: Nostalgia for a Socialist Childhood / Roman Abramov
Exhibit E: Rotating Exhibits
13. A Museum of a Museum? Fused and Parallel Historical Narratives in the Joseph Stalin State Museum / Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen
14. Between Occupations and Freedoms: Memory, Narrative, and Practice at Vabamu in Tallinn, Estonia / A. Lorraine Kaljund
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