{"product_id":"museums-of-communism-new-memory-sites-in-central-and-eastern-europe-hardback-9780253050304","title":"Museums of Communism; New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe (Hardback) 9780253050304","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMuseums of Communism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen M. Norris (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253050304\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e442 pages, 89 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 89 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm, 0.857 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Duncan Light (Eurasian Geography and Economics) \u003cp\u003eBoth 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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Polly Jones - University College, Oxford (The Russian Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. \u003ci\u003eMuseums of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range of fields explore various museums and include nearly 90 photographs, a common denominator emerges: rather than focusing on artifacts and historical documents, these museums often privilege memories and stories. In doing so, the museums shift attention from experiences of guilt or collaboration to narratives of shared victimization under communist rule. As editor Stephen M. Norris demonstrates, these museums are often problematic at best and revisionist at worst. From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic museums of everyday life in Russia, the sites considered offer new ways of understanding the challenges of separating memory and myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: From Communist Museums to Museums of Communism: An Introduction \/ Stephen M. Norris\u003cbr\u003eExhibit A: Hall of Genocide, Occupation, and Terror \u003cbr\u003e1. Sovereignty, Terror, and Suffering in the Museum of Genocide Victims in Lithuania \/ Neringa Klumbytė \u003cbr\u003e2. Visualizing Revisionism: Europeanized Anticommunism at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest \/ Máté Zombory\u003cbr\u003e3. Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism \/ Stephen M. Norris\u003cbr\u003e4. Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan \/ Steven Barnes\u003cbr\u003e5. Riga's Cheka House: From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? \/ Katja Wezel \u003cbr\u003eExhibit B: Hall of National Tragedies \u003cbr\u003e6. Sensing the Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past \/ Stephen M. Norris\u003cbr\u003e7. Enforcing National Memory, Remembering Famine's Victims: The National Museum \"Holodomor Victims Memorial\"\/ Daria Mattingly\u003cbr\u003eExhibit C: Hall of Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e8. The Czech Museum of Communism: What National Narrative for the Past? \/ Muriel Blaive \u003cbr\u003e9. Stasiland or Spreewald Pickles? The Battle over the GDR in Berlin's DDR Museum \/ Stephen M. Norris\u003cbr\u003eExhibit D: Hall of Russian Memory\u003cbr\u003e10. Commemorating and Forgetting Soviet Repression: Moscow's State Museum of GULAG History \/ Jeffrey Hardy\u003cbr\u003e11. The Butovskii Shooting Range: History of an Unfinished Museum \/ Julie Fedor and Tomas Sniegon\u003cbr\u003e12. Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: Nostalgia for a Socialist Childhood \/ Roman Abramov \u003cbr\u003eExhibit E: Rotating Exhibits \u003cbr\u003e13. A Museum of a Museum? Fused and Parallel Historical Narratives in the Joseph Stalin State Museum \/ Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen\u003cbr\u003e14. Between Occupations and Freedoms: Memory, Narrative, and Practice at Vabamu in Tallinn, Estonia \/ A. 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