Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table...

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Kenneth Christie Robert Cribb

Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe

Ghosts at the Table of Democracy

Kenneth Christie, Robert Cribb

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Routledge
01 August 2002

Regional studies; History: specific events & topics; Political structures: democracy

The twentieth century was scarred by conflict. Across the globe, dozens of societies have been transformed by political processes involving intense violence, including

civil war, massacre, murder and detention. In the process, ethnic groups, political ideologies, social classes and other human categories have been excluded from political power in their societies. The global wave of democratization which took place towards the end of the century brought a welcome end to repression in many parts of the world, but the effects of past repression linger like ghosts at the table of democracy. This volume juxtaposes one society - Finland - in which the process of coming to terms with the ghosts of the past seems to be coming at last to an end, with several societies - the Baltic states, Mongolia, China and Indonesia - which have only just begun this process. Finland's civil war of 1918 left tons of thousands dead while it bitterly divided Finnish society. Antagonism, resentment, triumphalism and denial jostled with each other for space in Finnish politics for three generations, through a second world war and through Finland's remarkable economic transition in the last decades of the century. Only in the closing years of the century did Finns begin to see the civil war as a common tragedy for the nation as a whole rather than as the triumph of some Finns over others. The Baltic states have emerged from nearly five decades of Soviet repression, Mongolia from seven

decades. A hesitant democratization at the local level is under way in China after the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. And the New Order of President Suharto in Indonesia, which was founded on the massacre of half a million communist in 1965-66, has given way to a turbulent near-democracy. This

volume explores the ways in which these societies have begun to reconcile a terrible past with a democratizing future.

Edited by: Kenneth Christie, Robert Cribb
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780700715992
ISBN 10: 0700715991
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 August 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Remembering, Forgetting and Historical Injustice Robert Cribb and Kenneth Christie Victim or Victimizer: the Reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution through Personal Stories Jin Qiu The Aftermath of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia Wu Di Sing Wis Ya Wis: What is Past is Past? Forgetting what it is to remember the Indonesian killings of 1965-66 Robert Goodfellow Remembering and Forgetting at 'Lubang Buaya': the 'Coup' of 1965 in Contemporary Indonesian Historical Perception and Public Commemoration Klaus H. Schreiner Causes and consequences of historical amnesia: the annexation of the Baltic states in post-Soviet Russian popular history and political memory David Mendeloff Coming to terms with the past: memories of displacement and resistance in the Baltic states Dovile Budryte Transmitted Experience: Individual Testimonies and Collective Memories of the Nanjing Atrocity Daqing Yang Thirty thousand bullets: Remembering political repression in Mongolia Christopher Kaplonski Coping with the civil war of 1918 in twentieth-century Finland Risto Alapuro Civil War victims and the ways of mourning in Finland in 1918 Ulla-Maija Peltonen Remembering the Finnish Civil War: confronting a harrowing past Mandy Lehto

Kenneth Christie lectures in the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway. Robert Cribb is Reader in Southeast Asian history at the University of Queensland.