Nikolay Koposov (Atlanta Emory University)

Memory Laws, Memory Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the development of memory laws in Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and the contrasting purposes they serve in the identity politics of the East and West. This is a major contribution to the history of memory and ongoing conflicts over the legacy of the Second World War, Nazism, and communism.

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Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781108410168
• ISBN-10: 1108410162
• Artikelnr.: 48687917

Autorenporträt

Nikolay Koposov is a Russian historian currently teaching at Emory University, Atlanta, having previously worked at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and The Johns Hopkins University. He was Founding Dean of Russia's first and only (to date) liberal arts college - Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a joint venture of Saint-Petersburg State University and Bard College, New York. His research deals with various aspects of modern historiography and historical memory, from Early Modern France to post-Soviet Russia. His book How Historians Think (2001) was translated into French by Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales as De l'imagination historique (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The rise of memory and the origins of memory laws; 2. Memory laws in Western Europe; 3. Memory laws in Eastern Europe; 4. Memory laws in Ukraine; 5. Memory laws in Yeltsin's Russia; 6. Memory laws in Putin's Russia; Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'Nikolay Koposov is, by his personal experience and his international culture and mostly by his talent as both a philosopher and an historian, the most well equipped man to dominate such a large and topical subject.' Pierre Nora, Académie Française