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oapen-20.500.12657-311142021-11-12T16:33:12Z Continued Violence and Troublesome Pasts: Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War Kivimäki, Ville Karonen, Petri second world war violence postwar period sex crimes europe Finland Germany Nazism Rape Red Army Soviet Union bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000::HBLW3 Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBW Military history::HBWQ Second World War bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFE Violence in society bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFE Violence in society::JFFE2 Sexual abuse & harassment 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 2017-09-01 23:55:55 2019-02-21 12:07:09 2020-04-01T13:24:16Z 2020-04-01T13:24:16Z 2017 book 638231 OCN: 1030816117 0355-8924;1458-526X 9789522229045;9789522229038 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31114 eng Studia Fennica Historica application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 638231.pdf 10.21435/sfh.22 Finnish Literature Society / SKS 10.21435/sfh.22 10.21435/sfh.22 51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f 2bce7b2b-181b-47a2-a1b1-2fe3ca87467d 2bce7b2b-181b-47a2-a1b1-2fe3ca87467d 9789522229045;9789522229038 22 152 Helsinki, Finland Helsinki University Library and SKS Helsinki University Library and SKS open access
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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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