Cultural Diplomacy in the War Museum: The Case of the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.

National heritage, and particularly "difficult" heritage, does not exist in isolation from the heritage of other countries. Russia's relationship to Germany is a salient case in point in the Putin era, in which a more cosmopolitan approach to the history of the Second World War in many European stat...

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Publicado en:History & Memory Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 78 - 117
Autores principales: CLARKE, DAVID, WÓYCICKA, ZOFIA
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Publicado: Indiana University Press Fall/Winter2019
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Sumario:National heritage, and particularly "difficult" heritage, does not exist in isolation from the heritage of other countries. Russia's relationship to Germany is a salient case in point in the Putin era, in which a more cosmopolitan approach to the history of the Second World War in many European states has been challenged by a reversion to nationalist approaches to this period in Russian memory politics. On the basis of the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, this article explores the possibilities of and limitations to international projects for the development of shared narratives about the past as a phenomenon of cultural diplomacy.