Introduction
Introduction
Author(s): Timothy SnyderSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Victimology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Editorial, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: 1940s; memory culture; The Second World War; victims of Second World War; politics; editorial;
Summary/Abstract: Although almost all of us are too young to remember anything of the 1940s, we are nevertheless condemned to live in memory cultures that begin with the Second World War and its victims. Historians, especially those who take as their subjects Germany and Russia and the lands between, must somehow negotiate the slippery territory between memory cultures and historical scholarship. One approach is to treat the memory cultures themselves as an object of study, as do Alexandra Goujon and David Marples in the essays published here. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 24/2010
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 3-5
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English