Memory and power in post-war Europe studies in the presence of the past Memory and power in post-war Europe : studies in the presence of the past

"How has memory - collective and individual - influenced European politics after the Second World War and after 1989 in particular? How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how have 'historical lessons' been applied in foreign policy? While there is now a burgeoning field of social and cultural memory studies, mostly focused on commemorations and monuments, this volume is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly. It investigates how memory is officially recast, personally reworked and often violently re-instilled after wars, and, above all, the ways memory shapes present power constellations. The chapters combine theoretical innovation in their approach to the study of memory with deeply historical, empirically based case studies of major European countries. The volume concludes with reflections on the ethics of memory, and the politics of truth, justice and forgetting after 1945 and 1989"--Jacket Introduction : The Power Of Memory, The Memory Of Power And The Power Over Memory / Jan-werner Müller -- Memory Of Sovereignty And Sovereignty Over Memory : Poland, Lithuania And Ukraine, 1939-1999 / Timothy Snyder -- Myth, Memory And Policy In France Since 1945 / Robert Gildea -- The Power Of Memory And Memories Of Power : The Cultural Parameters Of German Foreign Policy-making Since 1945 / Thomas Berger -- The Past In The Present : British Imperial Memories And The European Question / Anne Deighton -- Europe's Post-cold War Remembrance Of Russia : Cui Bono? / Iver B. Neumann -- Memory, The Media And Nato : Information Intervention In Bosnia-hercegovina / Monroe E. Price -- The Past Is Another Country : Myth And Memory In Post-war Europe / Tony Judt -- The Emergence And Legacies Of Divided Memory : Germany And The Holocaust After 1945 / Jeffrey Herf -- Unimagined Communities : The Power Of Memory And The Conflict In The Former Yugoslavia / Ilana R. Bet-el -- Translating Memories Of War And Co-belligerency Into Politics : The Italian Post-war Experience / Ilaria Poggiolini -- Institutionalising The Past : Shifting Memories Of Nationhood In German Education And Immigration Legislation / Daniel Levy And Julian B. Dierkes -- Trials, Purges And History Lessons : Treating A Difficult Past In Post-communist Europe / Timothy Garton Ash. Edited By Jan-werner Müller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics breaks apart the narrow disciplinary and subfield boundaries that have fragmented the study of both traditional social movements as well as their non-routine politics. By exploring non-institutionalized political actions, including revolutions, democratization, cycles of protest, and ethnic conflicts, the connections between a wide array of political and social phenomena are examined in national, comparative, and global perspectives.How has memory -- collective and individual -- influenced European politics in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Cold War? How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how have 'historical lessons' been applied in foreign policy? This book is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly. The chapters combine theoretical innovation with historical, empirically-grounded case studies of major European countries. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to historians of contemporary Europe, political scientists and sociologists. Revanchism, ethnic cleansing and war are all results of memory; peace in a part of the world where border changes, nationalist murder and bloody conflict are well remembered is at least as interesting.