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Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War II

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Editors:
  1. Ville Kivimäki

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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  2. Peter Leese

    1. Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  • Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are available Open Access
  • Moves discussion on historical traumas in the twentieth century into new, less studied territories
  • Focuses on varying experiences of trauma, rather than medical discourses and institutional practices

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience (PSHE)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Comparative Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Limits of Trauma: Experience and Narrative in Europe c. 1945

      • Peter Leese
      Pages 3-26

    3. Beyond the Western Front

      • Mark S. Micale
      Pages 27-52

  3. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Testing the Silence: Trauma and Military Psychiatry in Soviet Russia and Ukraine During and After World War II

      • Robert Dale
      Pages 55-87

    3. Experiencing Trauma Before Trauma: Posttraumatic Memories, Nightmares and Flashbacks Among Finnish Soldiers

      • Ville Kivimäki
      Pages 89-117Open Access

    4. Entangled Bystanders: Multidimensional Trauma of Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Violence in Eastern Galicia

      • Anna Wylegała
      Pages 119-148Open Access

    5. Traumatized Children in Hungary After World War II

      • Tuomas Laine-Frigren
      Pages 149-176Open Access

    6. “We will cry a little, but then we will forget”: Narratives of Loss and Victory in Postwar Yugoslavia

      • Ana Antić
      Pages 177-205

    7. Guilt, Responsibility and Trauma: Restoring the Moral Self-Image in Postwar Slovakia

      • Hana Kubátová
      Pages 207-231

    8. “Perpetrator Trauma” in Memoirs of Veterans of the Polish Home Army

      • Marta Kurkowska-Budzan
      Pages 233-266

    9. Environmental Trauma in the Narratives of Postwar Reconstruction: The Loss of Place and Identity in Northern Finland After World War II

      • Outi Autti
      Pages 267-297

    10. Suicide Rates as a “Social Thermometer”: Reading the Traumatized History of Lithuania

      • Danutė Gailienė
      Pages 299-318

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 333-337
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About this book

This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II. Focusing especially on Eastern and Central Europe, its contributors take a fresh look at the experiences of violence and loss in 1939–45 and their long-term effects in different cultures and societies. The chapters analyze traumatic experiences among soldiers and civilians alike and expand the study of traumatic violence beyond psychiatric discourses and treatments. While acknowledging the problems of applying a present-day medical concept to the past, this book makes a case for a cultural, social and historical study of trauma. Moving the focus of historical trauma studies from World War I to World War II and from Western Europe to the east, it breaks new ground and helps to explain the troublesome politics of memory and trauma in post-1945 Europe all the way to the present day. This book is an outcome of a workshop project ‘Historical Trauma Studies,’ funded by the JointCommittee for the Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) in 2018–20.


Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Ville Kivimäki

  • Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Peter Leese

About the editors

Ville Kivimäki is Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. He leads the Lived Nation research team at the Academy of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX).

Peter Leese is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural History at the Institute of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War II

  • Editors: Ville Kivimäki, Peter Leese

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84663-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84662-6Published: 04 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84665-7Published: 05 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84663-3Published: 03 December 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2524-8960

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-8979

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 337

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Social History, Cultural History, European History

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