ABSTRACT
The memory of past atrocity lingers like a ghost at the table of democracy. Injustices carried out in the past - from massacres and murder to repression and detention - embitter societies and distort their structures so that the process of establishing and running a democracy carries an extra burden. This volume examines societies at various stages of dealing with the memory of the past, from China, Mongolia, Indonesia and the Baltic States, where bitter memories of death and persecution still intrude, to Finland, where the civil war of 1918 has finally been accepted as a distant national tragedy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |11 pages
2 Victim Or Victimizer
The reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution through personal stories
chapter |22 pages
5 Remembering And Forgetting At ‘Lubang Buaya'
The ‘coup' of 1965 in contemporary Indonesian historical perception and public commemoration
chapter |39 pages
6 Causes And Consequences Of Historical Amnesia
The annexation of the Baltic states in post-Soviet Russian popular history and political memory
chapter |21 pages
7 Coming To Terms With The Past
Memories of displacement and resistance in the Baltic states
chapter |16 pages
8 Transmitted Experience
Individual testimonies and collective memories of the Nanjing Atrocity