Laws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation
of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws,
Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in
Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and exposes their very
different purposes in the East and West. In Western Europe, he shows
how memory laws were designed to create a common European memory
centred on the memory of the Holocaust as a means of integrating
Europe, combating racism, and averting national and ethnic conflicts.
In Russia and Eastern Europe, by contrast, legislation on the issues
of the past is often used to give the force of law to narratives which
serve the narrower interests of nation states and protect the memory
of perpetrators rather than victims. This will be essential reading
for all those interested in ongoing conflicts over the legacy of the
Second World War, Nazism, and communism.
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ISBN
9781108329538
Publisert
2017
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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