Brushing the Archive Against the Grain: The Politics of Remembrance in Eastern Europe

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The aim is to analyze how Cold War police archives can be reinterpreted to uncover dissent and protest dynamics in Eastern European memory.
Literary and artistic analysis of archival records from Romania's Securitate and East Germany's Stasi.
Exploration of embodied perspectives and gaps in historical memory.
Comparison of archival and bureaucratic narratives to reveal alternative histories.
Both authors find that police archives can lead to revolutionary reinterpretations of history beyond their official narratives.
The book discusses specific examples, like Foucault's visit to Poland, highlighting the significance of absent records.
It critiques post-1989 memory politics, suggesting that archives could serve as sites of complexity and resistance.

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The study explores alternative memories in Eastern Europe through Cold War secret police archives, indicating new perspectives on state power.

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Sven Spieker (2026) studied this question.

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