The Unfinished Revolution

"A masterly, sophisticated and original account of the struggle of Eastern bloc countries to come to terms with their Communist pasts. A fine contribution to studies of collective memory and oral testimony." - Robert Gildea, University of Oxford

"James Mark’s Unfinished Revolution provides an excellent discussion of central-eastern Europe’s relationship to its past. Combining memory studies with oral history, Mark draws on a wide range of sources in his supremely well-written analysis of the political, social and cultural processes of coming to terms with fascism and communism." - William Niven, author of Facing the Nazi Past

“Memory in its public and accessible forms - institutional, collective, popular, cultural, social - continues to excite lively interest across the academic disciplines, not least because it remains such an inspiring if contentious term of political action in so many parts of the contemporary world, as citizenries continue coming to terms with one kind of dictatorial and violent past or another. By exploring those complexities so carefully and poignantly in the concrete settings of individual lives, James Mark provides especially rich access to the dynamics of this process in post-Communist east-central Europe.” - Geoff Eley, author of Reshaping the German Right