- 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
Table of contents (16
chapters)
Introduction: “Formulas of Betrayal”—Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory
Narvselius, Eleonora (et al.) Pages 1-27
Monuments for Deserters!? The Changing Image of Wehrmacht Deserters in Germany and Their Gradual Entry into Germany’s Memory Culture.
Dräger, Marco Pages 31-57
From Traitors to Role Models: Rehabilitation and Memorialization of Wehrmacht Deserters in Austria
Pirker, Peter (et al.) Pages 59-85
Reinventing Collaboration: The Vlasov Movement in the Postwar Russian Emigration
Tromly, Benjamin Pages 87-111
Taking an Intellectual Stance Between Communist Resistance and Fascist Collaboration: Jean Paulhan and the Épuration Process in France at the End of WWII
Perret, Caroline Pages 115-139
Intellectuals in Times of Troubles: Between Empowerment and Disenchantment During the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan
Yurchuk, Yuliya (et al.) Pages 141-168
Discussing Wartime Collaboration in a Transnational Digital Space: The Framing of the UPA and the Latvian Legion in Wikipedia
Kaprāns, Mārtiņš (et al.) Pages 169-195
In the Ninth Circle: Intellectuals as Traitors in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Zaharchenko, Tanya Pages 197-212
Collaboration and the Genocide of Roma in Poland
Kapralski, Sławomir Pages 215-240
The Soviet Punishment of an All-European Crime, “Horizontal
Collaboration”
Voisin, Vanessa Pages 241-264
“Organized Bestial Gangs”—The Second World War and Images of Betrayal in Yugoslav Socialist Cinema
Andersen, Tea Sindbæk Pages 265-283
Collaboration and Collaborators in Ukraine During the Second World War: Between Myth and Memory
Borovyk, Mykola Pages 285-308
Silken Braids Under the German Boot: Creating Images of Female Soviet Ostarbeiters as Betrayers and Betrayed
Grinchenko, Gelinada (et al.) Pages 311-336
Betrayal of Memory in Hungarian Public Memorials of the Twentieth Century
Harlov-Csortán, Melinda Pages 337-360
Betrayal and Public Memory: The “Myroslav Irchan Affair” in the Diaspora—Homeland Disjuncture
Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia Pages 361-382
Post-War and Post-Communist Poland and European Knightly Myths of Loyalty and Betrayal: Pasikowski’s Acquis Mythologique Communautaire
Toczyski, Piotr Pages 383-402
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