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3 Peter Burke, Varieties of Cultural History (Ithaca, NY, 1997), 55.

4 Anna Green, `Individual Remembering and “Collective Memory”, Theoretical Presuppositions and Contemporary Debates', Oral History 32(2) (2004), 35—44.

5 Reinhart Koselleck, `“Erfahrungsraum” und “Erwartungshorizont” — zwei historische Kategorien', in Reinhart Koselleck, Vergangene Zukunft: Zur Semantik geschichtlicher Zeiten (Frankfurt a. M. 1979), 349—75.

6 Christof Dejung, `Dissonant Memories: National Identity, Political Power, and the Commemoration of World War Two in Switzerland', Oral History 35(2) (2007), 57—66.

7 Wulf Kansteiner, `Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies', History and Theory 41(2) (2002), 195.

8 See for instance Stefan Goebel, `Review Article: Beyond Discourse? Bodies and Memories of Two World Wars', Journal of Contemporary History, 42(2) (2007), 377—85.

9 Pierre Nora (ed), Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, 3 vols (New York 1996—98).

10 Ludmilla Alexeyeva and Paul Goldberg, The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era (Boston 1990), 19—21.

11 Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore 1973). For an evaluation of White's approach, see Wulf Kansteiner, `Hayden White's Critique of the Writing of History', History and Theory 32(3) (1993), 273—95.

12 Theodor W. Adorno, `Cultural Criticism and Society', in T. W. Adorno, Prisms (Cambridge, MA, 1990), 34.

13 Quoted in John M. Coetzee, `In the Midst of Losses', in New York Review of Books 48(11) (5 July 2001), 5.

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