Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1: Mapping Memory Laws.- Chapter 2: French Laws for a Better Past.- Chapter 3: "(De) Criminalizing the Past: Spain's Legal Response to History, Memory, and Historical Memory.- Chapter 4: Polish Memory Laws and the Distortion of the History of the Holocaust.- Chapter 5: Legislating Historical Memory in Post-Soviet Ukraine.- Chapter 6: Holocaust Remembrance, the Cult of the War, and Memory Law in Putin's Russia.- Chapter 7: Protecting Memory or Criminalizing Dissent? Memory Laws in Lithuania and Latvia.- Chapter 8: Criminalizing Denial as a Form of Erasure: The Polish-Ukrainian-Israeli Triangle.- Chapter 9: Memory Laws: The Continuation of Yugoslav Wars by Other Means.- Chapter 10: Communism v. National Socialism: Legislation as a Tool of Selective Historical Narrative in Hungary.- Chapter 11: The Perils and Limits of Memory Laws: The Case of Israel's 'Nakba Law' (2011).- Chapter 12: Memory Law and the Duty to Remember the '1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi' in Rwanda.