4/2004 Reconciliation through the Past: Pan-European Perspective

Methodology and Theory

Editors

Memories at Peace? Reconciliation with and through the Past

4/2004

Norbert Frei

Past Overcome? The Third Reich in Contemporary German Consciousness

4/2004

Published in Russian translation, see Russian pages of this website.

Stefan Troebst

“What Sort of a Carpet?” The Culture of Memory in Post-Communist Societies of Eastern Europe. An Attempt at General Description and Categorization

4/2004

Published in Russian translation, see Russian pages of this website.

Interview with Jan Gross

Memory and History: “The Neighbors?”

4/2004

Jan Gross is the author of the acclaimed book: Neighbors. The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Princeton, 2001.

Interviewer Serguei Glebov.

Ronald Grigor Suny

Dialogue on Genocide: Efforts by Armenian and Turkish Scholars to Understand the Deportations and Massacres of Armenians During World War I

4/2004

Published in Russian translation, see Russian pages of this website.

History

Agnieszka Jagodzińska

Between Two Worlds: Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw as a Text of Culture (1850-1900)

4/2004

I would like to thank Ezra Mendelsohn, Marcin Wodzinski and the AI editorial board for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. Also, I am grateful to Lee Levine and Richard Cohen for their suggestions concerning various aspects of visual Judaism. Financial support for my research has been provided by the Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews, Vilnius, Lithuania. All pictures and drawings by Agnieszka Jagodzińska.

Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickie

Our Common Culture: “The Learnt Memory” of Lithuanian Jerusalem

4/2004

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Anna Lipphardt

Post-Holocaust Reconstruction of Vilno, “The Most Yiddish City in the World”, in New York, Israel, and Vilnius

4/2004

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Evgenii Anisimov

From Pikul’ to “Round Table”

4/2004

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Melissa F. Gayan

Gorbachev’s Reforms and the Beginning of a New History in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

4/2004

Kathleen E. Smith

Whither Anti-Stalinism?

4/2004

Harley Balzer

An Acceptable Past: Memory in the Russian Extrication from Communism

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Alexander Filiushkin

“One Land, Different Memories:” The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Historical Memories of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Russia

4/2004

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Interview with Hieronim Grala

“Non-Empire:” The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish Historical Memory

4/2004

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Darius Vilimas

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Stereotypes of Historical Memory in Lithuania

4/2004

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Giedrė Mickūnaitė

Newest Mythologies

Serguei Oushakine

Replacing Loss: Materialization of Memory and the Hermeneutics of Pain in Provincial Russia

4/2004

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Historiography

Stephen Velychenko

Ukrainians Rethink Their Revolutions

4/2004

Українська революція 1917 - початок 1918. Проблеми пошуки узагальнення / Под ред. Ф. Г. Турченко. Запоріжжя: Просвіта, 1998. 261 с.;
Ф. Г. Турченко, Г. Ф. Турченко. Пiвденна Україна: Mодернізація, світова війна, революція (кінець ХІХ ст. - 1921 р.). Історичні нариси. Київ: Ґенеза, 2003. 304 с. ISBN: 966-504-317-X <a href="javascript:Pick it!ISBN: 966-504-317-X"><img style="border: 0px none ;" src="http://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=FindIt" alt="Pick It!" title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'></a> .

Book Reviews

Lilia Berezhnaia

A. Kappeler, Z. E. Kohut, F. E. Sysyn, and M. Von Hagen (Eds.), Culture, Nation, and Identity. The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945) (Edmonton, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2003). 381 pp. ISBN: 1-895571-47-2.

4/2004

This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Emilian Kavalski

Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000). xlix+438 pp. ISBN: 0-8179-9542-0.

4/2004

Sergei Kiselev

Д. Н. Замятин. Власть пространства и пространство власти: Географические образы в политике и международных отношениях. Москва: РОССПЭН, 2004. 352 с. (Сер.: “Политология России”). Библиогр. Рез. англ. ISBN: 5-8243-0300-2.

4/2004

This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

4/2004

Issue 4/2004 Reconciliation through the Past: Pan-European Perspective

Methodology and Theory

Memories at Peace? Reconciliation with and through the Past

Past Overcome? The Third Reich in Contemporary German Consciousness

“What Sort of a Carpet?” The Culture of Memory in Post-Communist Societies of Eastern Europe. An Attempt at General Description and Categorization

Memory and History: “The Neighbors?”

Dialogue on Genocide: Efforts by Armenian and Turkish Scholars to Understand the Deportations and Massacres of Armenians During World War I

History

Between Two Worlds: Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw as a Text of Culture (1850-1900)

Our Common Culture: “The Learnt Memory” of Lithuanian Jerusalem

Post-Holocaust Reconstruction of Vilno, “The Most Yiddish City in the World”, in New York, Israel, and Vilnius

Archive

“Remembering the Future.” Constitutional Project of Andrei Sakharov and the Problem of “System Memory:” Between “Convergence” and the “Zero Option”

Materials for A. D. Sakharov’s Constitutional Project: June-November, 1989

Remembering A. D. Sakharov’s Constitutional Project 15 years Later - 1

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

From Pikul’ to “Round Table”

Gorbachev’s Reforms and the Beginning of a New History in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

Whither Anti-Stalinism?

An Acceptable Past: Memory in the Russian Extrication from Communism

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

“One Land, Different Memories:” The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Historical Memories of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Russia

“Non-Empire:” The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish Historical Memory

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Stereotypes of Historical Memory in Lithuania

Newest Mythologies

Replacing Loss: Materialization of Memory and the Hermeneutics of Pain in Provincial Russia

Historiography

Ukrainians Rethink Their Revolutions

Book Reviews

A. Kappeler, Z. E. Kohut, F. E. Sysyn, and M. Von Hagen (Eds.), Culture, Nation, and Identity. The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945) (Edmonton, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2003). 381 pp. ISBN: 1-895571-47-2.

Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000). xlix+438 pp. ISBN: 0-8179-9542-0.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

“The Dead Jews:” A Reflection On Useable Past

Counter-Hegemonic Visions and Reconciliation Through the Past: The Case of Turkish Eurasianism

Soviet People: The Making of a Common Identity in the USSR as the Creation of Common Memory (the Case of Buriat ASSR)

The Nation and the Discourse of Guilt: Reconciliation With the Past in the Kalmyk Politics of Memory

Historical Text Ad Marginem, or the Divided Memory of Divided Towns?

The Notion of Rupture in Estonian Narrative Memory: On the Construction of Meaning in Autobiographical Texts on the Stalinist Experience

Remembering A. D. Sakharov’s Constitutional Project 15 years Later - 2

Practices of Dealing with the Past in the Post-Perestroika Russia: Narrative and Invocation

Empire as Nostalgia or à la recherche des terres perdues

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as Historical Experience: The Case of Ukraine

Looking into the Broken Mirror Splinters: The Russian Discourse on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Historical Memory of Byelorussians – Rusins: from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Jan T. Gross, Revolution from Abroad. The Soviet Conquest of Poland’s Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Princeton; London: Princeton University Press, 2002). Expanded edition, with a new preface by the author. xxiv+396 pp. ISBN: 0-691-09603-1.

Mykhailo Hrusevsky, Hystory of Ukraine-Rus’. From Prehistory to the Eleventh Century (Volume 1); The Cossack Age to 1625 (Volume 7); The Cossack Age, 1626-1650 (Volume 8). (Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1997-2002).

Margarita M. Balmaceda, James I. Clem, and Lisbeth L. Tarlow (Eds.), Independent Belarus: Domestic Determinants, Regional Dynamics, and Implications for the West. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002). 483 pp. Appendix. Index. ISBN: 0

Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations. Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003). 367 pp. ISBN: 0-300-09569-4.

Д. Гузевич, И. Гузевич. Великое посольство. Санкт-Петербург: Феникс, 2003. 309 с. ISBN: 5-85042-073-8.

Yale Richmond, From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians (Yarmouth: Intercultural Press, 2003). Third Edition. 203 pp. ISBN: 1-877864-16-1.

A. O. Chubarian, F. Gori, I. Yu. Novichenko, V. V. Ishchenko (Eds.), European Experience and Teaching History in Post-Soviet Russia: Seminar Materials Promoting Regional Innovation in Programs and Methodology (Moscow: IVI RAN, 1999). ISBN: 5-201-00522-5.

Padraic Kenney, A Carnival of Revolution. Central Europe, 1989 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002). 352 p. ISBN: 0-691-05028-7.

Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy (London: Pluto Press, 2002). vi+303pp. ISBN: 0-74531502-X.

Lilia Shevtsova, Putin’s Russia (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003). 306 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-87003-202-X.