Description |
1 online resource (xix, 352 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
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Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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Summary |
Heroes and victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes -- from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed comme. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-336) and index. |
Contents |
Memory traces: on local practices of remembering and commemorating -- Death and ritual: mourning and commemorative practices before 1914 -- Mourning, burying, and remembering the war dead: how communities coped with the memory of wartime violence, 1918-1940 -- Remembering the great war through autobiographical narratives -- The politics of commemoration in interwar Romania, 1919-1940: dialogues and conflicts -- War commemorations and state propaganda under dictatorship: from the crusade against Bolshevism to Ceausescu's cult of personality, 1940-1989 -- Everyone a victim: forging the mythology of anti-communism counter-memory -- The dilemmas of post-memory in post-Communist Romania. |
Local Note |
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World War (1914-1918) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Memorialization -- Romania -- History -- 20th century.
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Memorialization. |
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Romania. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Romania.
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Memory -- Social aspects. |
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Memory. |
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War and society -- Romania.
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War and society. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Romania.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Romania.
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War memorials -- Social aspects -- Romania.
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War memorials. |
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Social aspects. |
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Collective memory -- Romania.
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Collective memory. |
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Romania -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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History, Military. |
Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Military history.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bucur, Maria, 1968- Heroes and victims. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2010 9780253353788 (OCoLC)455801506 |
ISBN |
9780253003911 electronic book |
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0253003911 electronic book |
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9786612539756 electronic book |
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6612539755 electronic book |
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9780253353788 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253353785 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780253221346 paperback alkaline paper |
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025322134X paperback alkaline paper |
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