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The policy of memory, commemoration, post-socialism? Remembering socialist modernisation in the Czech countryside

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study explores the culture of remembering local sites of socialist modernisation in the Czech countryside. The study is based on research in two locations. Examined are memories of the popularity of a community centre and the prosperity of a collective farm. These phenomena shape the locally relevant places of memory not only in their physical forms; they also become sources of active commemoration . The local connections are set in the context of the national policy of remembrance and the culture of memory of peripheral regions across post-socialist countries. The article explores the salience of locally relevant commemoration concerning society-wide development. Also, it raises the question of the possibility of relating these phenomena to the context of the changes in the dominant post-socialist memory framework in Central and Eastern Europe.

Source: Memory Studies

DOI: 10.1177/17506980251409267

Author: Oto Polouček

Institution: Masaryk University

Language: English

Topic: Eastern European Communism and Reforms

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,650

Funder: Masarykova Univerzita