Primul Război Mondial, sau sinuciderea colectivă a Europei
The First World War, or Europe’s Collective Suicide
Author(s): Florin ŢurcanuSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: First World War; collective memory; rediscovery of the Great War; the Great War; imperialist war; extreme collective experience; totalitarian violence; Eastern Europe; memory of the communist crimes; Romanian fascism; Yugoslavia wars; Sarajevo; Romanian c
Summary/Abstract: In 2008 we commemorate 90 years since the end of the First World War. With no direct witnesses still alive, the event is remembered due to a phenomenon of the collective memory and of the Western historiography of the past two decades: the rediscovery of the Great War, beyond the limited circles of the specialists, beyond the traditional constrains of national and military histories, beyond the tardy echoes of the Leninist dogma of the “imperialist war”
Journal: Lettre Internationale - Ediţia română
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 64
- Page Range: 100-101
- Page Count: 1
- Language: Romanian