Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums

<p>This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of recent European-wide debates on history memory and politics. The contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide variety of case studies pointing out similarities and differences and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at regional and European level. <p/><i>Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums</i> argues that museums have a huge influence on the image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they use a vast array of media tools visual tactics and commercial strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the past and to shape the attitude of public opinion.</p>