Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Past of Mass Dictatorship

   1. Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Past of Mass Dictatorship

      • Jie-Hyun Lim, Peter Lambert

      Pages 1-13

3. Entangled Memory and Comparative History

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Predicaments of Culture: War, Dictatorship and Modernity in Early Post-War West Germany and Japan

      • Sebastian Conrad

      Pages 17-35

   3. Victimhood Nationalism in the Memory of Mass Dictatorship

      • Jie-Hyun Lim

      Pages 36-61

   4. Creating a Victimised Nation: The Politics of the Austrian People’s Courts and High Treason

      • Hiroko Mizuno

      Pages 62-83

4. The Dialectical Interplay of History and Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Ukraine Faces Its Soviet Past: History versus Policy versus Memory

      • Volodymyr V. Kravchenko

      Pages 87-119

   3. History and Responsibility: On the Debates on the Shōwa History

      • Naoki Sakai

      Pages 120-138

   4. Widukind or Karl der Große? Perspectives on Historical Culture and Memory in the Third Reich and Post-War West Germany

      • Peter Lambert

      Pages 139-161

5. Pluralizing Memories: Fragmented, Contested, Resisted

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. The Suppression and Recall of Colonial Memory: Manchukuo and the Cold War in the Two Koreas

      • Suk-Jung Han

      Pages 165-179

   3. Accomplices of Violence: Guilt and Purification through Altruism among the Moscow Human Rights Activists of the 1960s and 1970s

      • Barbara Walker

      Pages 180-203

   4. Consuming Fragments of Mao Zedong: The Chairman’s Final Two Decades at the Helm

      • Michael Schoenhals

      Pages 204-222

   5. The Lived Space of Recollection: How Holocaust Memorials Are Conceived Differently Today

      • Jörg H. Gleiter

      Pages 223-239

6. Back Matter

   Pages 240-253

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This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.

• Cold War
• Germany
• history
• human rights

• Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

  Jie-Hyun Lim

• History Department, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

  Barbara Walker

• Aberystwyth University, UK

  Peter Lambert

Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Jörg H. Gleiter, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Germany Suk-Jung Han, Dong-A University in Pusan, South Korea Volodymyr Kravchenko, University of Alberta, Canada Hiroko Mizuno, Osaka University, Japan Naoki Sakai, Cornell University, USA Michael Schoenhals, Lund University, Sweden

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