Memory and Totalitarianism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory and Totalitarianism write by Luisa Passerini. This book was released on 2017-07-12. Memory and Totalitarianism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. The invasion of Moscow's streets by Russian people rejecting an attempted coup d'etat was the culmination of a process that had been initiated years before and raised crucial questions: To what extent can these events be considered the end of an era stretching from World War I to the 1980s, when Europe experienced many forms of dictatorship? To what extent can the various forms of dictatorship Europe experienced in the twentieth century be grouped together? Can any sort of affinity be established between them? The new introduction to the paperback edition of this volume in the Memory and Narrative series, Leydesdorff and Crownshaw underline the fundamental importance of the struggle for memory and its meaning. Memory and Totalitarianism explores the remembered experiences of individuals living under different totalitarian regimes, and examines the construction of memory in the aftermath of those regimes' collapse. It attempts to situate the findings of oral history in the context of contemporary memory. It wrestles with the most painful memories that Europeans have of this century at the end of the Cold War. These memories compare with oral history's research into such experiences as racist attitudes against blacks in the South, or the cultural and psychological effects of apartheid in South Africa, or the Aborigines' claim to their own history and to a new idea of history in Australia. Totalitarianisms are products of the twentieth century that go far beyond earlier manifestations of absolutism and autocracy in their effort to completely control political, social, and intellectual life. They were made possible by modern industrialism and technology. Therefore the theme of the book expands to include many other experiences that relate to totalitarian mentalities.
Memory and Totalitarianism
Memory and Totalitarianism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory and Totalitarianism write by Luisa Passerini. This book was released on 2005. Memory and Totalitarianism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lest We Forget : Memory of Totalitariansim in Europe : a Reader for Older Secondary School Students Anywhere in Europe
Lest We Forget : Memory of Totalitariansim in Europe : a Reader for Older Secondary School Students Anywhere in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lest We Forget : Memory of Totalitariansim in Europe : a Reader for Older Secondary School Students Anywhere in Europe write by Gillian Purves. This book was released on 2013. Lest We Forget : Memory of Totalitariansim in Europe : a Reader for Older Secondary School Students Anywhere in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hope and Memory
Hope and Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hope and Memory write by Tzvetan Todorov. This book was released on 2016-05-31. Hope and Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstanding intellectuals. Identifying totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system and democracy and its effects on human life and consciousness. Totalitarianism managed to impose itself because, more than any other political system, it played on people's need for the absolute: it fed their hope to endow life with meaning by taking part in the construction of a paradise on earth. As a result, millions of people lost their lives in the name of a higher good. While democracy eventually won the struggle against totalitarianism in much of the world, democracy itself is not immune to the pitfall of do-goodery: moral correctness at home and atomic or "humanitarian" bombs abroad. Todorov explores the history of the past century not only by analyzing its spectacular political conflicts but also by offering moving profiles of several individuals who, at great personal cost, resisted the strictures of the communist and Nazi regimes. Some--Margarete Buber-Neumann, David Rousset, Primo Levi, and Germaine Tillion--were deported to concentration camps. Others--Vasily Grossman and Romain Gary--fought courageously in World War II. All became exemplary witnesses who described with great lucidity and humanity what they had endured. This book preserves the memory of the past as we move into the twenty-first century--arguing eloquently that we must place the past at the service of a just future.
MEMORY and totalitarianism. 1 vol
MEMORY and totalitarianism. 1 vol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook MEMORY and totalitarianism. 1 vol write by . This book was released on 1992. MEMORY and totalitarianism. 1 vol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
