Scholars of nationalism knew about the role of memory and forgetting in nation building long
before the contemporary boom of memory studies. Still, they can learn a lot from this …

Remembrance of war and conflict exposes the intricate interweaving of cultural memory and
identity. Nations commemorate war to link narratives of the past with the present. This linking …

Critical scholars of place-name studies have compellingly demonstrated that significant
transformations in a society's namescape follow suit major power shifts and regime changes …

Political geographers and sociologists working in the field of critical toponymies have
demonstrated that renaming the streetscape follows invariably after a regime change …

This paper examines the role of education within post-communist transitional justice. It
focuses on the ways in which young Romanians negotiate the communist past during an …

¿ Qué hacer con el legado de un dictador tras su muerte o caída? Esta memoria conflictiva
también incluye una herencia material, que va desde la tumba del autócrata a los lugares …

Self-serving hegemonic visions of history are institutionalized by dominant memory
entrepreneurs, simultaneously imposing an authoritative version of “what happened” and …

Our article discusses one of the most challenging phenomena in the post-communist
Romanian cultural field, which concerns the fictional depiction of childhood under …

This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women's lives and on their
self-expression through close readings of life writing by women in communist Romania. In …

This article examines the transformation of memory regarding Soviet crimes in Lithuania,
and more broadly in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, as an interlinked political and legal …