The Criminalisation of Communism in the European Political Space after the Cold War

Neumayer, Laure

doi:10.4324/9781351141765

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“…The European concept of "two totalitarianisms" has also been embodied in the House of European History, which was opened in May 2017 and which makes the Holocaust and the communist terror an integral part of the continent's history (Box 2.4.4.) (more extensively on EU policy with respect to remembrance of communist crimes, see Neumayer, 2019).…”

Section: European Union Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Latvia. Human Development Report 2019/2020: Europeanization of Latvia

Universitāte¹

2021

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Number of inhabitants, millions 1.9 Natural population growth, % -0.5 Population density, person per km 2 30 Population distribution between urban and rural areas, % Rural Urban 69 Gender distribution of population, % Males 46 Females 54 Distribution of employment by sectors, % Agriculture 7 Industry 24 Services 69 General government sector expenditure, % of GDP (2018) TOTAL 39.5 Of which: Defence 2.1 Education 5.8 Health 4.0 Social security 11.6 Euro rate versus 1 USD (at the end of 2019) -1.185 Land area, km 2 -64,569

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Section: European Union Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Latvia. Human Development Report 2019/2020: Europeanization of Latvia

Universitāte¹

2021

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“…Furthermore, the Western European narrative was based on the uniqueness of Holocaust until the second half of the 2000s. Since then, the European Parliament (as well as the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) has incorporated the idea of an equivalence between Nazi and Communist crimes into several resolutions as a result of the actions of anti-communist activists from Eastern European countries (Neumayer, 2019). Projects like MYPLACE, or EUNAMU, part of which addressed narratives developed in museums under fascism and communism regimes as well as presentations (and comparisons) of these regimes in present-day museums, also support this idea.…”

Section: Plural Identities Negative Experiences Memory and Heritage Issues As Ways To Alleviate The Debates?mentioning

confidence: 99%

EU research policy as a transnational memory policy instrument? The framework programmes and the production of competing visions of Europe

Boulay

2021

Memory Studies

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This article considers the history-based research networks funded by the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development (FPs). It sheds light on the interactions between the European Commission and scholars – Commission-appointed experts, funded researchers, but also scholars who disagree with the EU memory policy. Even if the scholars’ influence is significant, the FPs remain an instrument in the hands of the European Commission. The visions of the history of Europe brought forward are in conformance with official narratives highlighted by works on other EU memory policy instruments. This leads to a confrontation between ‘authorised’ and alternative narratives at European level. While the institutionalisation of European research networks as a form of knowledge production which is intended to be specifically European contributes to shaping ‘Europe’, the idea of the emergence of an autonomous ‘European memory space’ nevertheless deserves nuancing because of the FPs’ fragmented nature and of the role that national academic levels continue to play.

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“…In such discourses and interpretations of history, the fundamental differences between the two ideologies and political projects get levelled, their consequences are equated and a de-politicized shared victimhood acts as a unifying glue. Eventually, this historical narrative -or variations of it -has been embraced at the level of transnational European institutions such as the EU and the Council of Europe (Neumeyer 2019). It is, for example, the narrative proposed by the House of European History in Brussels, the EU-funded museum that opened in 2017, which caused Wolfram Kaiser (2017) to speak about the 'East Europeanization' of the project and of its historical representations of the Second World War and the Cold War.…”

Section: Concurrent Historiesmentioning

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Whither Politics, Whither Memory?

Cercel

2020

Modern Languages Open

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The memory boom, a multifaceted process fundamentally consisting in the increasing presence of the past in the present, occurred in practice simultaneously with the ostensible (transnational) stabilization of a neoliberal consensus, itself a complex process informed by deregulation, privatization, the abandonment of the politics of redistribution and the erosion of social and economic rights. By drawing attention to the concurrent characters of the history of the memory boom and the history of neoliberalism, this contribution aims to push towards an engagement with the ways in which economic transformation and memory are intertwined. This should enable us to better understand the critical political and mnemonic juncture that we find ourselves at. The question arising is whether memory has in any way the necessary critical potentialities to underlie the pursuit and realization of a radically democratic present and future.

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The Criminalisation of Communism in the European Political Space after the Cold War

Cited by 30 publications

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Latvia. Human Development Report 2019/2020: Europeanization of Latvia

Latvia. Human Development Report 2019/2020: Europeanization of Latvia

EU research policy as a transnational memory policy instrument? The framework programmes and the production of competing visions of Europe

Whither Politics, Whither Memory?

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