The Ukraine crisis and European memory politics of the Second World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7989451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marco Siddi (0000-0002-5881-5574, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 465-479 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Politics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2374-5126 • E-ISSN: 2374-5118 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23745118.2016.1261435 |
| OpenAlex | W2555717583 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 37 |
In Europe, commemorations of the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War have reiterated the existence of different national narratives of the historical event. These narratives can be grouped into four distinct memory discourses. Each discourse is dominant in a particular European country or region: Russia, post-communist East-Central Europe, Germany and the Western European countries that fought against the Third Reich. On 8–9 May 2015, the four narratives found expression in distinct European commemorative locations: Moscow, Gdansk, Berlin and London/Paris. The paper argues that, while the four narratives have existed for several decades, the Russian narrative has recently been reformulated with a more nationalistic rhetoric and used as a conceptual framework to explain and interpret the crisis in Ukraine. Simultaneously, East-Central European narratives have been radicalised too, while nationalist discourses and highly controversial historical figures have been subsumed in a new post-Maidan official narrative in Ukraine. This further politicised the memory of the Second World War, leading to dissonance between the Russian and the German and Western European narratives and, most notably, to a radical discursive clash between the Russian and the East-Central European memory discourses
East-Central Europe · Economic history · European integration · European studies · European union · German · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
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| Citations per year | 3,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |