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Sites of the Dictators: Memories of Authoritarian Europe, 1945-2020

Sites of the Dictators: Memories of Authoritarian Europe, 1945-2020

Núñez Seixas, Xosé M.

Hardcover

Eastern European HistoryItalian HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0367684101
ISBN13: 9780367684105
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 14 2021
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational and comparative way.

During the second decade of the twenty-first century, a number of parallel debates arose in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania, Austria and other European countries regarding the public management by democratic regimes of those sites of memory that were directly linked to the personal biographies of their former dictators. The ways in which each democracy deals with the dead bodies, mausoleums and birthplaces of the dictators vary considerably, although common questions occur, such as whether oblivion or re-signification is better, the risk of a posthumous cult of personality being established and the extent to which the shadow of the authoritarian past endures in these sites of memory. Using the concept of sites of the dictators, the author explains why it is so difficult to deal with some sites of memory linked to dead autocrats, as those places contribute directly or indirectly to humanizing them, making their remembrance more acceptable for the present and future generations, and discusses the potential of the Europeanization of these dark memories of the past.

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