Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern : Ghosts at the Table of Democracy.

Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern : Ghosts at the Table of Democracy.

Examines societies, from China, Mongolia, Indonesia and the Baltic States, where memories of death and persecution still intrude, to Finland, where the civil war of 1918 has finally been accepted as a distant national tragedy.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christie, Kenneth
Other Authors: Cribb, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
Series:Politics/History.
Subjects:
Democracy > East Asia.
Democracy > Europe, Northern.
Democracy
Politics and government
Europe, Northern > Politics and government.
East Asia > Politics and government.
East Asia
Northern Europe
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: remembering, forgetting and historical injustice; Victim or victimizer: the reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution through personal stories; The aftermath of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia; Forgetting what it was to remember the Indonesian killings of 1965 6; Remembering and forgetting at 'Lubang Buaya': the 'coup' of 1965 in contemporary Indonesian historical perception and public commemoration.
  • Causes and consequences of historical amnesia: the annexation of the Baltic states in post-Soviet Russian popular history and political memoryComing to terms with the past: memories of displacement and resistance in the Baltic states; Transmitted experience: individual testimonies and collective memories of the Nanjing Atrocity; Thirty thousand bullets: remembering political repression in Mongolia; Coping with the Civil War of 1918 in twenty-first century Finland; Civil War victims and the ways of mourning in Finland in 1918.

Similar Items