Gaps of Memory
Russia and Germany 60 years after the war
Osteuropa 4-6/2005
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2005 [= Osteuropa 4-6/2005]
496 pages, 37 figures
Price: 28,00 €
ISBN: 3-8305-0969-3
Deutsche Fassung
Contents
- Editorial
The past is more than history - Harald Welzer
The presence of the past
History as arena for politics - Aleksandr Boroznjak
Waves of memory
Dealing with the past in the FRG - Helmut König
From silence to remembrance
The Shoah and World War II in the political consciousness of the FRG - Maria Ferretti
Unreconciled memory
War, Stalinism, and the shadows of patriotism - Lev Gudkov
The fetters of victory
Russia's identity from the memory of the war - Andreas Langenohl
State visits
Internationalized commemoration of World War II in Russia and Germany - Vladyslav Hrynevyč
Divided memory
World War II as remembered in Ukraine Memory Facets
- Jörg Echternkamp
The “German catastrophe”?
Remembering World War II in Germany - Joachim Hösler
What is meant by reappraisal of the past?
The Great Patriotic War in Soviet and Russian historiography - Wolfram Wette
Hitler’s Wehrmacht
Stages of the debate about a myth - Jörg Ganzenmüller
Secondary theatre of war
The siege of Leningrad as remembered by the Germans - Il’ja Al’tman
The ban on commemorating the Shoah
The long journey from Soviet taboo to remembrance - Michail Ryklin
German on call
From The Black Book to The Young Guard - Richard Chaim Schneider
The rituals of Germany’s process of coming to terms with the past
The return of the dead Jews and the disappearance of the living Jews: an analytic-polemical experiment - Ol’ga Nikonova
The big silence
Women in the war - Franka Maubach
The female Wehrmacht auxiliary
A paradigmatic figure of the last days of the war - Beate Fieseler
The suffering of the victors
Invalids of the Great Patriotic War Places of Memory
- Boris Dubin
The war as a golden age
Remembrance as longing for the Brezhnev era - Il’ja Kukulin
The regulation of pain
Coping with traumatic experiences in Soviet war literature - Klaus Städtke
Life and Fate
In memory of Vasily Grossman’s novel - Volker Hage
Buried feelings
How German writers coped with the allied bombing - Dorothea Redepenning
Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz:
Music against war and violence - Hanno Loewy
Holokaust at full moon
Comments on a ZDF documentary from the perspective of the theory of genre - Neja Zorkaja
The cinema in wartime
Visualizations between 1941 and 1945 - Isabelle de Keghel
Unusual perspectives
World War II in recent Russian films - Natal’ja Konradova, Anna Ryleva
Heroes and victims
Memorials in Russia and Germany - Natalija Danilova
Continuity and change
Memorials to the war in Afghanistan Ways of Memory
- Aleksej Levinson
Just wars
War and land as ethical categories - Pavel Polian
Victory according to plan
The Pobeda organizing committee and its consequences - Georgij Ramazašvili
Keeping history clean as a profession
The Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence - Irina Ščerbakova
The map of memory
Young people report on the war - Irina Pruss
Grandmothers and grandchildren
Another perspective on Soviet history - Žanna Kormina, Sergej Štyrkov
No-one and nothing is forgotten
The occupation as oral history - Gabriele Freitag
Forced labour under Nazism, 60 years on
The work of the Foundation for Memory, Responsibility, and the Future