Museums of Communism

Stephen M. Norris is Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University. He is author of Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism and editor of five books on Russian history and culture, including Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present.

• Introduction: From Communist Museums to Museums of Communism: An Introduction / Stephen M. NorrisExhibit A: Hall of Genocide, Occupation, and Terror 1. Sovereignty, Terror, and Suffering in the Museum of Genocide Victims in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė 2. Visualizing Revisionism: Europeanized Anticommunism at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest / Máté Zombory3. Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism / Stephen M. Norris4. Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Steven Barnes5. Riga's Cheka House: From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? / Katja Wezel Exhibit B: Hall of National Tragedies 6. Sensing the Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past / Stephen M. Norris7. Enforcing National Memory, Remembering Famine's Victims: The National Museum "Holodomor Victims Memorial"/ Daria MattinglyExhibit C: Hall of Everyday Life8. The Czech Museum of Communism: What National Narrative for the Past? / Muriel Blaive 9. Stasiland or Spreewald Pickles? The Battle over the GDR in Berlin's DDR Museum / Stephen M. NorrisExhibit D: Hall of Russian Memory10. Commemorating and Forgetting Soviet Repression: Moscow's State Museum of GULAG History / Jeffrey Hardy11. The Butovskii Shooting Range: History of an Unfinished Museum / Julie Fedor and Tomas Sniegon12. Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: Nostalgia for a Socialist Childhood / Roman Abramov Exhibit E: Rotating Exhibits 13. A Museum of a Museum? Fused and Parallel Historical Narratives in the Joseph Stalin State Museum / Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen14. Between Occupations and Freedoms: Memory, Narrative, and Practice at Vabamu in Tallinn, Estonia / A. Lorraine KaljundIndex

The chapters do present a series of stimulating (and sometimes provocative) case studies about the situation in particular countries. It is a book which will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers with interests in the post-communist world and more broadly in issues of post-communist memory politics.- Duncan Light (Eurasian Geography and Economics) Both empirically and theoretically, this volume manages the rare trick of adding up to much more than the sum of its parts; it is essential reading for all scholars and students of Eastern European memory politics and museology.- Polly Jones - University College, Oxford (The Russian Review)