Bridges across the Atlantic? Intertwined anti-communist mobilisations in Europe and the United States after the Cold War

Laure Neumayer

Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, 2020, vol. N° 2-3, issue 2, 151-183

Abstract: This article focuses on transatlantic interrelationships between advocacy groups calling for historical recognition, legal accountability and collective remembrance of communist-era crimes. A case study of three partly overlapping anti-communist networks established during and after the Cold War, in the United States and Europe, shows that the exchange of ideas across the Atlantic is not underpinned by a tightly institutionalised network but by cross-references between organisations with slightly diverging audiences, claims and future-oriented agendas. The article identifies two factors that account for the persisting fragmentation of this memory activism in the post-Cold War period: the distinct organisational and ideological roots of anti-communist networks and the idiosyncrasies of the political and institutional contexts in which they operate.

Keywords: anti-communism; transnational mobilisations; memory activism; transatlantic relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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