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    Continued Violence and Troublesome Pasts: Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War

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    Contributor(s)
    Kivimäki, Ville (editor)
    Karonen, Petri (editor)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    In most European countries, the horrific legacy of 1939–45 has made it quite difficult to remember the war with much glory. Despite the Anglo-American memory narrative of saving democracy from totalitarianism and the Soviet epic of the Great Patriotic War, the fundamental experience of war for so many Europeans was that of immense personal losses and often meaningless hardships. The anthology at hand focuses on these histories between the victors: on the cases of Hungary, Estonia, Poland, Austria, Finland, and Germany and on the respective, often gendered experiences of defeat. The book’s chapters underline the asynchronous transition to peace in individual experiences, when compared to the smooth timelines of national and international historiographies. Furthermore, it is important to note that instead of a linear chronology, both personal and collective histories tend to return back to the moments of violence and loss, thus forming continuous cycles of remembrance and forgetting. Several of the authors also pay specific attention to the constructed and contested nature of national histories in these cycles. The role of these ‘in-between’ countries – and even more their peoples’ multifaceted experiences – will add to the widening European history of the aftermath, thereby challenging the conventional dichotomies and periodisations. In the aftermath of the seventieth anniversary of 1945, it is still too early to regard the post-war period as mere history, the memory politics and rhetoric of the Second World War and its aftermath are again being used and abused to serve contemporary power politics in Europe
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    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31114
    Keywords
    second world war; violence; postwar period; sex crimes; europe; Finland; Germany; Nazism; Rape; Red Army; Soviet Union
    DOI
    10.21435/sfh.22
    ISBN
    9789522229045;9789522229038
    OCN
    1030816117
    Publisher
    Finnish Literature Society / SKS
    Publication date and place
    Helsinki, Finland, 2017
    Grantor
    • Helsinki University Library and SKS
    • Helsinki University Library and SKS
    Series
    Studia Fennica Historica, 22
    Classification
    History and Archaeology
    Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
    Second World War
    Modern warfare
    c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)
    Society and Social Sciences
    Violence and abuse in society
    Sexual abuse and harassment
    Pages
    152
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Finland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland; Germany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany; Nazism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism; Rape - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape; Red Army - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army; Soviet Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union; World War II - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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