Collective Memories in War

<p>This edited collection offers an empirical exploration of social memory in the context of politics war identity and culture. With a substantive focus on Eastern Europe it employs the methodologies of visual studies content and discourse analysis in-depth interviews and surveys to substantiate how memory narratives are composed and rewritten in changing ideological and political contexts. The book examines various historical events including the Russian-Afghan war of 1979-89 and World War II and considers public and local rituals monuments and museums textbook accounts gender and the body. As such it provides a rich picture of post-socialist memory construction and function based in interdisciplinary memory studies.</p>