Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe - CEU Press
Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia
1st Edition
By Johana Wyss
January 26, 2026
How do people negotiate identity, memory, and history in Czech Silesia? How do they make sense of a turbulent past marked by mass displacement, shifting borders, and successive political regimes? And what do dominant narratives of Czech nationalism mean for communities living with the absence of ...
Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucy Jeffery, Anna Váradi
December 24, 2025
Repercussions of communism are still felt throughout Central and Eastern Europe. In fact, specters of communism remain vivid enough to inspire a wide range of contemporary cultural production, from video games to museum exhibits. This volume demonstrates how the region remains in a state of ...
Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine
1st Edition
By Mykola Homanyuk, Mischa Gabowitsch
May 06, 2025
From the very first weeks of Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Russian soldiers, politicians, and proxy administrators expended considerable effort interacting with monuments on newly occupied territory. Why did the invaders care enough about war memorials to divert ...
Remembering Suffering and Resistance: Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church
1st Edition
By Karin Roginer Hofmeister
June 30, 2024
Assessing issues related to the Orthodox Church from an academic, secular point of view is a sensitive matter. However, by tracing and interpreting the engagement of the Serbian Church with the memory of Serbian heroic victimhood in World War II through a kind of “methodological agnosticism,” this ...