Of red dragons and evil spirits : post-Communist historiography between democratization and new politics of history / edited by Oto Luthar.
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: red dragon and the evil spirits / Oto Luthar
- On the (in)convertibility of national memory into European legitimacy: the Bulgarian case / Daniela Koleva
- Equalizing Jesus's, Jewish and Croat suffering: post-Socialist politics of history in Croatia / Ljiljana Radonic
- Wars of memory in post-Communist Romania / Michael Shafir
- Reflections on the principles of the critical culture of memory / Todor Kuljic
- The struggle for legitimacy: constructing the national history of Slovakia after 1989 / Miroslav Michela
- Victims and traditions: narratives of Hungarian national history after the age of extremes / Ferenc Laczó
- Instrumentalization of history in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Sacir Filandra
- Post-Socialist historiography between democratization and new exclusivist politics of history / Oto Luthar.