Dariusz Gafijczuk and Derek Sayer (eds), The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe: Re-imagining Space, History and Memory (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-214
Author(s):  
Kristian Handberg
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Space History

scholarly journals Between Old Traditions and New Approaches: Locating Oral History and Memory Studies in East Central Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-218
Author(s):  
Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
East Central ◽  
History Of

Abstract The article explores how oral history and memory studies have been used in East Central Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain. It focuses particularly on the question of whether Eastern European scholars only reproduce what was invented in the West, or whether they advance their original concepts and ideas. Both disciplines have been involved in reassessing the history of communism and the communist version of history itself and both contributed to revealing memoires obscured by the communist regime, even if the role of oral history may be considered as pivotal in this process. Although oral history had been practiced in the region at least since the 1970s, it was introduced as a new discipline according to the Western criteria after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Memory studies and their most successful concept, the “lieux de mémoire”, were implemented into to the region later and the promoters of the concept were predominantly Western scholars. Drawing on the uses of the term “historical consciousness” in Czech and Polish research, the article argues that various strategies associated with the “return to Europe” can be found in the region when promoting native traditions and equalizing them with the Western ones.

Empire Loyalism and Nationalism in Ukraine and Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Taras Kuzio
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Irish History ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Post Colonialism

This is the first comparative article to investigate commonalities in Ukrainian and Irish history, identity, and politics. The article analyzes the broader Ukrainian and Irish experience with Russia/Soviet Union in the first and Britain in the second instance, as well as the regional similarities in conflicts in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine and the six of the nine counties of Ulster that are Northern Ireland. The similarity in the Ukrainian and Irish experiences of treatment under Russian/Soviet and British rule is starker when we take into account the large differences in the sizes of their territories, populations, and economies. The five factors that are used for this comparative study include post-colonialism and the “Other,” religion, history and memory politics, language and identities, and attitudes toward Europe.

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