Heroes and victims: remembering war in twentieth-century Romania

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Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Memory Traces: On Local Practices of Remembering and Commemorating 1. Death and Ritual: Mourning and Commemorative Practices before 1914 2. Mourning, Burying, and Remembering the War Dead: How Communities Coped with the Memory of Wartime Violence, 1918-1940 3. Remembering the Great War through Autobiographical Narratives 4. The Politics of Commemoration in Interwar Romania, 1919-1940: Dialogues and Conflicts 5. War Commemorations and State Propaganda under Dictatorship: From the Crusade against Bolshevism to Ceausescu's Cult of Personality, 1940-1989 6. Everyone a Victim: Forging the Mythology of Anti-Communism Counter-Memory 7. The Dilemmas of Post-Memory in Post-Communist Romania Notes Selected Bibliography Index