From the History of Soviet Political Symbolism

Soboleva, Natalia

doi:10.2753/rsh1061-1983470204

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Memory In the Communist Worldview And The Italian Context For Commemoration1

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“…What place can memory have in a Weltanschaaung such as the communist one, which is programmatically and utopically projected towards the future? Despite strong statements about culture as an epiphenomenon and the instrumental character of politics, communist leaders and intellectuals have usually paid great attention to the symbolic dimension of politics; political symbols have always been exploited both in revolutionary moments (Corney, 2004) and in the consolidation of power (Lane, 1981; Soboleva, 2008).…”

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Commemoration and processes of appropriation: The Italian Communist Party and the Italian Resistance (1943–48)

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2011

Memory Studies

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Scholarship on collective memory often conceives struggles over the past as directly dependent on the structure of interests in the present. However, temporal constraints affect the way the past is selected and represented. In this article I focus on the appropriation of the memory of the Resistance by the Italian Communist Party in the years between 1943 and 1948. I highlight, following a growing literature on the path dependence of memory, that the consolidation of the memory of this period was conditioned not only by the political culture of the organization, but also by the internal dynamics and the specific genre of communist commemoration.

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