Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes-from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucur's study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers, rituals, and street names as well as autobiographical writings, novels, oral narratives, and film. This book reveals the ways in which a community's religious, ethnic, economic, regional, and gender traditions shaped local efforts at memorializing its war dead.
| ISBN: | 9780253353788 |
| Publication date: | 4th December 2009 |
| Author: | Maria Bucur |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies |
| Genres: |
General and world history European history |
Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes-from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucur's study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers, rituals, and street names as well as autobiographical writings, novels, oral narratives, and film. This book reveals the ways in which a community's religious, ethnic, economic, regional, and gender traditions shaped local efforts at memorializing its war dead.
Heroes and Victims features in the following genres: General and world history, European history
Heroes and Victims is available in Hardback
Heroes and Victims was written by Maria Bucur and published by Indiana University Press
Heroes and Victims has 352 pages
Yes it is part of Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies series