Concrete Memory: 12 Postwar Monuments Across Eastern Europe

Monument to the Fallen Soldiers of the Kosmaj Detachment. Image © MarkoDekic, via Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0A monument is usually the most conservative building a state will commission. It is expected to stabilize memory, to make history legible, and to give public form to a shared narrative. Eastern Europe's twentieth century produced an entire body of work from the Baltic to the Balkans that resisted precisely those expectations, challenging the conventional relationship between monumen