Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory

Bridges an obvious gap in the market of Anglophone academic literature as it provides a multidisciplinary and transnational perspective on the subject of treason, betrayal and collaboration

Focuses not on historical underpinnings, but rather on mnemonic transformations of the facts of betrayal and collaboration

Suggests an updated scholarly perspective that incorporates theoretical suggestions of memory studies, anthropology and cultural studies

Autorentext

Gelinada Grinchenko is Professor of History at the Department of Ukrainian Studies (Faculty of Philosophy, V. N. Karazin National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine).

Eleonora Narvselius is an ethnologist affiliated with Center for European Studies at Lund University.

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Eleonora Narvselius and Gelinada Grinchenko.- I. Military formations and combatants in formulas of betrayal.- 2. Monuments for deserters!? The changing image of Wehrmacht deserters in Germany and their gradual entry into Germany's memory culture; Marco DRÄGER.- 3. From Traitors to Role Models: Rehabilitation and Memorialization of Wehrmacht Deserters in Austria; Peter PIRKER and Johannes KRAMER.- 4. Reinventing Collaboration: The Vlasov Movement in the Postwar Russian Emigration; Benjamin TROMLY.- II. Intellectuals elites as betrayers, the betrayed and masterminds behind formulas of betrayal.- 5. Taking an Intellectual Stance between Communist Resistance and Fascist Collaboration: Jean Paulhan and the Épuration Process in France at the end of WWII; Caroline PERRET.- 6. Intellectuals in Times of Troubles: Between Empowerment and Disenchantment during the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan; Yuliya YURCHUK and Alla MARCHENKO.- 7. Discussing wartime collaborationin a transnational digital space: Framing of the UPA and Latvian Legion on Wikipedia; Mrti KAPRNS and Mykola MAKHORTYKH.- 8. In the Ninth Circle: Intellectuals as Traitors in the Russo-Ukrainian War; Tanya ZAHARCHENKO.- III. Collaboration in the conditions of WWII: crime, punishment, memory.- 9. Collaboration and the Genocide of Roma in Poland; Slawomir KAPRALSKI.- 10. The Soviet punishment of an all-European crime, horizontal collaboration; Vanessa VOISIN.- 11. Organized bestial gangs The Second World War and Images of Betrayal in Yugoslav Socialist Cinema; Tea SINDBÆK ANDERSEN.- 12. Collaboration and Collaborators in Ukraine during the Second World War: Between Myth and Memory; Mykola BOROVYK.- IV. Formulas of betrayal as a political ascription and public response.- 13. And upon my silken braids a German's iron boot will trample...: Creating images of female Soviet Ostarbeiter as a betrayer and the betrayed; Gelinada GRINCHENKO and Eleonora NARVSELIUS.- 14. Betrayal of memory in Hungarian public memorials of the 20th century; Melinda HARLOV.- 15. Betrayal and Public Memory: 'Myroslav Irchan Affair' in Diaspora-Homeland Disjuncture; Natalia KHANENKO FRIESEN.- 16. Post-war and post-communist Poland and European knightly myths of loyalty and betrayal: Pasikowski's acquis mythologique communautaire; Piotr TOCZYSKI.