Aleida Assman, University of Konstanz, GermanyNancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh, USAMischa Gabowitsch, Einstein Forum, State University of New York at Potsdam, USAIlya Kalinin, St. Petersburg State University, RussiaSimon Lewis, Kings College, University of Cambridge, UKAndrzej Nowak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, PolandAndrei Portnov, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyNatan Sznaider, Academic College, Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, IsraelJay Winter, Yale University, USAHarald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK

THE RIGHT TIME: There has been a recent boom in memory studies and investigations of memorialization, which this book is well-positioned to take advantage of

Introduction; Uilleam Blacker and Alexander Etkind PART I: DIVIDED MEMORY 1. Europe's Divided Memory; Aleida Assmann 2. Human Rights and European Remembrance; Jay Winter 3. European Memory: Between Jewish and Cosmopolitan; Natan Sznaider PART II: POST-COLONIAL, POST-SOCIALIST 4. Between Paris and Warsaw: Multidirectional Memory, Ethics and Historical Responsibility; Michael Rothberg 5. Theory as Memory Practice: The Divided Discourse on Poland's Postcoloniality; Dirk Uffelmann 6. Occupation vs Colonization: Post-Soviet Latvia and the Provincialization of Europe; Kevin M. F. Platt PART III: MOURNING MATTERS 7. Murder in the Cemetery: Memorial Clashes over the Victims of the Soviet-Polish Wars; Andrzej Nowak 8. Living among the Ghosts of Others: Urban Postmemory in Eastern Europe; Uilleam Blacker 9. Towards Cosmopolitan Mourning: Belarusian Literature between History and Politics; Simon Lewis PART IV: MEMORY WARS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 10. Why Digital Memory Studies Should Not Overlook Eastern Europe's Memory Wars; Ellen Rutten 11. Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Ukraine (1991-2010); Andriy Portnov 12. The Struggle for History: The Past as a Limited Resource; Ilya Kalinin

It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies.