EURHISTXX FILES 1/2008

The Legacy and Memory of Communism in Europe

 

Workshop organised by EURHISTXX

Paris, 17 December 2007

Program

Presentation

Papers:

Henry Rousso, Introduction

Maria Feretti, Nostalgia for communism in post-Soviet Russia

Pawel Machcewicz, Poland’s way of coming to terms with the legacy of Communism

Peter Apor, Eurocommunismus - Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe

Philippe Buton, The Memory of Communism in France

Tzvetan Todorov, The memory of totalitarianisms

John Horne, Summary

Publications

A collection of essays from the first EurhistXX conference, held in May 2004 in Berlin and Potsdam, has recently been published with Berghahn Books

Konrad H. Jarausch/Thomas Lindenberger (ed., in coll. with Annelie Ramsbrock): Conflicted Memories. Europeanizing Contemporary History, New York/Oxford 2007, 304 pp.