Collective memory and national identities

Marten-Finnis, Susanne

doi:10.1016/0967-067x(95)00014-l

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“…Many of ñódz′'s German industrialists lost their property and lives during the Second World War, particularly as they disagreed with aspects of the Third Reich. Constructing postsocialist identities around an appeal to a European, tolerant, multicultural past offers a potential solution to the problem of multiple 'unwanted pasts' by portraying an inclusive identity (Marten-Finnis, 1995;Thum, 2005). However, attempts to create an inclusive identity can also open up the potential for those unwelcome pasts to return and disrupt the creation of postsocialist identities.…”

Section: The Socialist Soviet and Russian Pasts And ñóDz ′' S Postsocialist Urban Identity -The Return Of The 'Unwanted' Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The article aims to contribute to the understanding of processes of postsocialist identity formation by examining the role played by the socialist, Soviet and Russian pasts of the city in current processes of urban identity formation. It explores how the 'active processing' of these pasts (Marten-Finnis, 1995) attempts to make them more palatable to the present and how these aspects of the past can return to disrupt and unsettle contemporary imaginings of the postsocialist city.…”

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The Socialist Past and Postsocialist Urban Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

Young

Kaczmarek

2008

European Urban and Regional Studies

133

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Cities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are creating new urban identities under conditions of postsocialist transformation, Europeanization and globalization. Discourses about postsocialist urban identity frequently attempt to 'Europeanize' these cities' identity and to obscure elements of the 'unwanted past', particularly the socialist, Soviet and Russian pasts. However, those pasts can return to disrupt dominant narratives of postsocialist urban identity.This article analyses how the past of socialism and relationships with Russia and the Soviet Union are treated in the construction of new urban identities in postsocialist CEE, particularly in the case of Lódz′, Poland. After outlining the treatment of the socialist past in Polish society and politics, the article analyses the contested construction of a new identity for Lódz′. The analysis focuses on the construction of a past multicultural 'European' 'Golden Age' for the city to create a new identity for it, and how that identity is contested and disrupted by the re-emergence of the city's socialist past and the history of its relations with Russia and the Soviet Union. The article concludes by outlining the broader implications of the case-study for the understanding of postsocialist urban identity formation.

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Section: The Socialist Soviet and Russian Pasts And ñóDz ′' S Postsocialist Urban Identity -The Return Of The 'Unwanted' Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%