Uncomfortable Memory
Borodino and Leipzig
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
An “archaeology” of memory helps to reconstruct how the layers of memory concerning the battles of Borodino in 1812 and Leipzig in 1813 have matured. Originally, this involved imperial and national places where the war against Napoleon’s forces was commemorated. Attempts to make these places of memory European are proving difficult.
(Osteuropa 1/2013, pp. 75–82)