Introduction: On culture of memory in Central and Eastern Europe

This issue of the Acta Baltico-Slavica, entitled "Baltyckie i slowianskie konteksty (nie) pamieci" (The Baltic and Slavic contexts of (non-) memory, vol. 42/2018), is devoted to interdisciplinary research on culture of memory, which - after Christoph Cornelissen - we understand as a formal notion superior to all possible forms of conscious memory of past events. This volume presents the state of research on memory from the perspective of two turning points in European history: 1918 and 1989. The events immediately following the fall of empires and the communist regime (including the rise of new states, shifts and modifications of state borders, international and ethnic conflicts, transformation of political and economic systems) not only changed the geopolitical map, but also exerted enormous influence on shaping identity and memory of Europeans and their historical and biographical narrations.