The Enemy on Display

The Second World War in Eastern European Museums

Zuzanna Bogumił, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tim Buchen, Christian Ganzer (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-760-4 (ISBN)

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Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process.

Zuzanna Bogumił, PhD, works at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her published works include Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past (Berghahn 2018), Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity: Local Communities, Religion, and Historical Politics (Peter Lang 2019), and co-edited volume Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective (Routledge 2022).

List of Illustrations

Preface: Project's History

Zuzanna Bogumił

Acknowledgements

Zuzanna Bogumił

Introduction: The Enemy on Display

Chapter 1. Temple of Heroic Community: Soviet people, Leningraders and German-Fascists in the State Museum of the History of St Petersburg

Chapter 2. Temple of Romantic Martyrdom: Poles, Germans and Jews in the Historical Museum of Warsaw

Chapter 3. Forum Revising National Myths: Second World War in the Dresden City Museum

Conclusions

Appendix: Museum descriptions: The Second War World and City History

Notes on Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2017
Reihe/Serie	Museums and Collections
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78533-760-2 / 1785337602
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-760-4 / 9781785337604
Zustand	Neuware