Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and

Memory Laws Memory Wars\nby Nikolay Koposov\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Nikolay Koposov\nTitle: Memory Laws Memory Wars\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781108419727\nISBN-10: 1108419720\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nLaws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and exposes their very different purposes in the East and West. In Western Europe, he shows how memory laws were designed to create a common European memory centred on the memory of the Holocaust as a means of integ.