Luthar Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits

Post-Communist Historiography between Democratization and the New Politics of History
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-963-386-152-3
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luthar, Oto

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction. “Red Dragon and the Evil Spirits”
Oto Luthar

Chapter 1 On the (In)convertibility of National Memory into European Legitimacy: The Bulgarian Case
Daniela Koleva

Chapter 2 Equalizing Jesus’s, Jewish and Croat Suffering—Post-Socialist Politics of History in Croatia
Ljiljana Radonic

Chapter 3 Wars of Memory in Post-Communist Romania
Michael Shafi

Chapter 4 Reflections on the Principles of the Critical Culture of Memory
Todor Kuljic

Chapter 5 The Struggle for Legitimacy: Constructing the National History of Slovakia After 1989
Miroslav Michela

Chapter 6 Victims and Traditions: Narratives of Hungarian National History After the Age of Extremes
Ferenc Laczó

Chapter 7 Instrumentalization of History in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Šacir Filandra

Chapter 8 Post-Socialist Historiography Between Democratization and New Exclusivist Politics of History
Oto Luthar

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Über Autor(innen)

Luthar, Oto
Oto Luthar is professor at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia.