The essay seeks to explain how and why rightwing populists in Europe, North America, and beyond have developed an “illiberal” politics of memory in opposition to the global liberal memory culture of the past generation. After explaining the rise of “illiberal memory” as a byproduct of the rise of illiberal democracy since 2008, the essay advances a comprehensive typology of the movement’s overall objectives and tactics based on numerous empirical examples from different nations, including Germany, Russia, the United States, Israel, and India. It concludes with some reflections about how illiberal memory is likely to evolve in the future. The essay is the first to advance the concept of “illiberal memory” and present an overall theory of its origins and agenda.

本文试图解释为什么，为什么欧洲，北美及其他地区的右翼民粹主义者与上一代全球自由记忆文化形成对立的“非自由”记忆政治。在解释了“自由记忆”的增长是自2008年以来自由民主的崛起的副产品之后，本文根据来自德国，俄罗斯，美国等不同国家的大量经验实例，对运动的总体目标和策略进行了全面的分类。国家，以色列和印度。本文最后总结了一些关于未来的自由记忆可能如何演变的思考。这篇文章是第一个提出“非法记忆”概念并提出其起源和议程的整体理论的文章。