Includes bibliographical references and index.

Telling difficult stories with fragments of experience : short-term ethnography in the securitate archives / Cristina Plǎmǎdealǎ and Cristian Tileagǎ -- Nested orientalism and memory places : the Roma in Romanian securitate archives / Delia Popescu -- Law, property rights, and the construction of memory regimes in Romania / Mihaela Şerba -- Between transitional justice and retrospective justice : the case of Mircea Vulcănescu / Monica Ciobanu -- The monuments of the royal family and the Romanian historical memory / Cristian Vasile -- Memory and post-memory : remembering the communist past in digitally mediated contexts / Cristina Petrescu and Dragoș Petrescu -- Generations of memory : narratives of conflicts, gaps, and intersections in Romanian cinema / Simona Mitroiu -- Rubbles of memory : the memorial afterlives of communist monuments in post-communist Romania / Mihai S. Rusu -- Nostalgic reconstructions of the communist past : the private museums of daily life during communism in Romania / Caterina Preda -- Popular culture exhibited : new trends in the musealization and memorialization of the Romanian socialist past / Dalia Bathory -- Justice for the forgotten victims of the communist regime in post-transition Romania / Luciana M. Jinga -- Conclusion / Joanna Wawrzyniak.

"The first of its kind, this book traces the construction of postmemory in post-communist Romania. Focusing on the processes, gaps, agents, and contradictions of postmemory, it examines a range of topics across a variety of disciplines, addressing questions of museums and musealization, law and memory, political trials and retrospective justice, and postmemory in a digital context, while also considering marginalized and forgotten voices, such as those of Roma populations and abandoned children. Moving away from a focus on the institutional mechanisms of transitional justice or officially sanctioned historical narratives, Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania brings together some of the leading voices in the field of memory studies in Romania to adopt a more pluralistic and diverse approach to the communist past. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, museum studies and history with interests in the communist period in Eastern Europe"-- Provided by publisher.