Includes bibliographical references and index.

Between two global Easts -- Victimhood nationalism : national mourning and global accountability -- The Second World War in global memory space -- Postcolonial reflections on the mnemonic confluence of the Holocaust, Stalinist crimes, and colonialism -- A postcolonial reading of Sonderwege : Marxist historicism revisited -- Imagining Easts : cofiguration of Orient and Occident in the global chain of national histories -- World history as a nationalist rationale : how the national appropriated the transnational in East Asian historiography -- Nationalist phenomenology in the East Asian history textbooks : on the antagonistic complicity of nationalisms -- Nationalist message in socialist code : on the party historiography in people's Poland and North Korea -- Mapping mass dictatorship : toward a transnational history of twentieth-century dictatorship -- Nationalizing the Bolshevik Revolution transnationally : in search of non-Western modernization among "proletarian" nations -- Blurring dichotomy of global Easts and Wests in the age of neo-populism.

"This book is the culmination of South Korean historian of collective memory Jie-Hyun Lim's exploration of the global connections in the discourse on colonialism, war, and genocide since World War II. From Poland to Germany to Korea, Lim traces the relationship between victimization and nationalism and the transnational history of reckoning with past wounds. Lim draws on critical theory from Marxism to Orienalism to untangle the connections between collective mourning, anti-colonialism, and authoritarian populism. Ultimately, this innovative and timely collection of essays asks: what would it take to create a global memory space that enables reconciliation and liberation?"--