1. Jay Winter introduced the idea of the “memory boom” in his Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (London: Canto, 1998); see also Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, ed. by Meike Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer (Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, 1999); Jenny Edkins, Trauma and the Memory of Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Memory, Trauma and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship between Past and Present, ed. by Duncan Bell (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, ed. by Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, and Claudio Fogu (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006); José van Dijck, Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007); Astrid Erll, Memory in Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); The Collective Memory Reader, ed. by Jeffrey K. Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, and Daniel Levy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
2. See Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994); Czesław Miłosz, Native Realm: A Search for Self Definition, trans. Catherine S. Leach (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988); Roman Szporluk, “Defining Central Europe: Power, Politics and Culture,” Cross Currents, 1 (1982), 30–38; In Search of Central Europe, ed. by George Schöpflin and Nancy Wood (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989); Mykola Riabchuk, “The Fence of Metternich’s Garden,” “ï”, 1.13 (1998),
http://www.ji.lviv.ua
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3. For the history of these concepts, see Ignacy Sachs, The Discovery of the Third World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1976); Carl E. Pletsch, “The Three Worlds, or the Division of Social Scientific Labor,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 23.4 (1981), 565–90; David Chioni Moore, “Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet?” PMLA, 116/1 (2001), 111–28; Alexander Etkind, Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience (Cambridge: Polity, 2011), pp. 25–29.
4. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), p. 3.
5. Milan Kundera, “The Tragedy of Central Europe: A Kidnapped West,” New York Review of Books, April 26, 1984, pp. 33–38.