The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th century in the region. Written by an international group of scholars from a diversity of disciplines, the chapters approach memory disputes in methodologically innovative ways, studying representations and negotiations of disputed pasts in different media, including monuments, museum exhibitions, individual and political discourse and electronic social media. Analyzing memory disputes in various local, national and transnational contexts, the chapters demonstrate the political power and social impact of painful and disputed memories. The book brings new insights into current memory disputes in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It contributes to the understanding of processes of memory transmission and negotiation across borders and cultures in Europe, emphasizing the interconnectedness of memory with emotions, mediation and politics.

• Table of Contents 6
• Introduction: Disputed Memories in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 8
• Part 1: Transnational Memory Politics 28
• Global Memory and Dialogic Forgetting: The Armenian Case 28
• Overcoming Memory Conflicts: Russia, Finland and the Second World War 44
• Sorry for Srebrenica? Public Apologies and Genocide in the Western Balkans 72
• Part 2: Sites of Memory Transmission 102
• The Spatial Choreography of Emotion at Berlin’s Memorials: Experience, Ambivalence and the Ethics of Secondary Witnessing 102
• The Universal Victim – Representing Jews and Roma in a European Holocaust Museum 130
• The Memory of the Roma Holocaust in Ukraine: Mass Graves, Memory Work and the Politics of Commemoration 156
• Part 3: Local and Marginal Memory 184
• Forced Migration and Identity in the Memories of Post-War Expellees from Poland and Ukraine 184
• Forming a Common European Memory of WWII from a Peripheral Perspective: Anthropological Insight into the Struggle for Recognitio 210
• Red Carnations on Victory Day and Military Marches on UPA Day? Remembered History of WWII in Ukraine 234
• Part 4: Memorial Media Spaces 256