Remembrance, History, and Justice: Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies

Part One -- Introduction / Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob -- European mass killing and European commemoration / Timothy Snyder -- Part Two. Politics of memory and constructing democracy -- Why World War II memories remain so troubled in Europe and East Asia / Daniel Chirot -- Post-authoritarian memories in Europe and Latin America / Eusebio Mujal-Leon and Eric Langenbacher -- Divided memory revisited : the Nazi past in West Germany and in postwar Palestine / Jeffrey Herf -- On the relationship between politics of memory and the state's rapport with the communist past / Alexandru Gussi -- Part Three. Histories and their publics -- Democracy, memory, and moral justice / Vladimir Tismaneanu -- The difficulty of overcoming the communist legacy in public memory of the past : Poland, Ukraine, and Russia in comparative perspective / Mark Kramer -- Promotion of a usable past : official efforts to rewrite Russo-Soviet history, 2000-2013 / David Brandenberger -- Germany's two processes of "coming to terms with the past" : failures, after all? / Jan-Werner Müller -- Part Four. Searching for closure in democratizing societies -- Twenty-five years "after" : the ambivalence of settling accounts with communism : the Polish case / Andrzej Paczkowski -- The Romanian revolution in court : what narratives about 1989? / Raluca Grosescu and Raluca Ursachi -- Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague : failed success of a historical trial / Vladimir Petrovic -- The South Africa transition : then and now / Charles Villa-Vicencio -- Scholarship and public memory : the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (PCACDR) / Cristian Vasile -- Moldova under the Soviet communist regime : history and memory / Igor Casu -- Part Five. Competing narratives of troubled pasts -- Coming to terms with Catholic-Jewish relations in the Polish Catholic church / John Connelly -- After communism : identity and morality in the Baltic countries / Leonidas Donskis -- The Romanian communist past and the entrapment of polemics / Bogdan C. Iacob -- Past intransient/transiting past : remembering the victims and the representation of communist past in Bulgaria / Nikolai Vukov.