„The collection of well-researched
essays assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of
Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the revival of national
histories that seemed to be the prevailing historiographical approach of the
1990s, the last decade has seen a particular set of narratives equating Nazism
and Communism. This provides opportunities to exonerate wartime collaboration, casting
the nation as victim even when its government was allied with Germany. While
the Jewish Holocaust is acknowledged, its meaning and significance are
obfuscated.
In their comparative
analysis the authors are also interested in new practices of ‘Europeanness’.
Therefore their presentations of Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian,
Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian post-communist memory politics move
beyond the common national myths in order to provide a new insight into
transnational interactions and exchanges in Europe in general. The
juxtaposition of these politics, the processes in other parts of Europe, the
modes of remembering shaped by displacement and the transnational enable a
close encounter with the divergences and assess the potential of the formation
of common, European memory practices.”
Oto Luthar is professor
at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana,
Slovenia
The content of te
book:
PREFACE / INTRODUCTION Oto
Luthar: “Red Dragon and the Evil Spirits”
CHAPTER 1 Daniela Koleva:
On the (In)convertibility of National Memory into European Legitimacy: The
Bulgarian Case
CHAPTER 2 Ljiljana
Radonić: Equalizing Jesus’s, Jewish and Croat Suffering—Post-Socialist Politics
of History in Croatia
CHAPTER 3 Michael
Shafir: Wars of Memory in Post-Communist Romania
CHAPTER 4 Todor
Kuljić: Reflections on the Principles of the Critical Culture of Memory
CHAPTER 5 Miroslav
Michela: The Struggle for Legitimacy: Constructing the National History of
Slovakia After 1989
CHAPTER 6 Ferenc
Laczó: Victims and Traditions: Narratives of Hungarian National History After
the Age of Extremes
CHAPTER 7 Šačir
Filandra: Instrumentalization of History in Bosnia and Herzegovina
CHAPTER 8 Oto Luthar:
Post-Socialist Historiography Between Democratization and New Exclusivist
Politics of History
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