Communism in retrospect: The rhetoric of historical representation and writing the collective memory of recent past

Memory Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 462-478

  Tileagǎ, Cristian ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective memory; communism; eastern Europe; politics of memory; representations of recent history; Romania; Tism neanu Report

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867737160     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698011434042     Document Type: Article

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