Memory of the Soviet Union and European Norms on Diversity as Rival Frameworks for Ethnic Boundary Making

A Case Study in Latvia’s Russian-speaking Schools

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ID23620787
AuthorsPascal Bonnard (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages193-208
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHistory, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137302052_12
OpenAlexW2462426523
ISBN9781137302052
LanguageEN
References cited7

While the end of the Second World War marks the victory of the Allies over Nazi Germany, it also signifies the establishment of Soviet power in Latvia. Since the fall of the Communist regime in 1991, ‘Latvian’ and ‘Russian’ political entrepreneurs in Latvia have mobilized the memories of the conflict and the regime established after the war with a view to forming groups. 1 Their objective is to give meaning to individuals’ memories of that period by creating a coherent and unified representation of the past, having it recognized as being true and having it shared by the largest number of people. As a result, they produce sharply divided representations that set those who see the Second World War as a period rallying all anti-Fascist forces and leading to a ‘liberation’ against those for whom the conflict marks the loss of independence and opens onto a ‘double occupation’. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Aesthetics · Communism · Diversity (politics) · Economic history · Ethnic group · Independence (probability theory) · Latvian · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Soviet union · Victory · World War II · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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