Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania

Contents

Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction Memory Traces: On Local Practices of Remembering and Commemorating 1 1. Death and Ritual Mourning and Commemorative Practices before 1914 18 2. Mourning, Burying, and Remembering the War Dead How Communities Coped with the Memory of Wartime Violence, 1918–1940 49 3. Remembering the Great War through Autobiographical Narratives 73 4. ἀ e Politics of Commemoration in Interwar Romania, 1919–1940 Dialogues and Conflicts 98 5. War Commemorations and State Propaganda under Dictatorship From the Crusade against Bolshevism to Ceauşescu’s Cult of Personality, 1940–1989 144 6. Everyone a Victim Forging the Mythology of Anti-Communism Counter-Memory 194 7. ἀ e Dilemmas of Post-Memory in Post-Communist Romania 223 Notes 253 Selected Bibliography 307 Index 337 ...