This book draws on numerous fields to provide a comprehensive review of collective memory.

Introduction; 1. An encounter with collective memory; 2. Methodological preliminaries to the study of collective remembering; 3. Collective memory: a term in search of a meaning; 4. State production of official historical narratives; 5. Narrative dialogicality and narrative templates in the production of official collective memory; 6. The consumption of historical narratives; 7. Generational differences in collective remembering; Conclusion.