Past in the Making
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Past in the Making

Historical Revisionism in Central Europe After 1989

  1. 274 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Past in the Making

Historical Revisionism in Central Europe After 1989

About this book

Historical revisionism, far from being restricted to small groups of 'negationists, ' has galvanized debates in the realm of recent history. The studies in this book range from general accounts of the background of recent historical revisionism to focused analyses of particular debates or social-cultural phenomena in individual Central European countries, from Germany to Ukraine and Estonia.Where is the borderline between legitimate re-examination of historical interpretations and attempts to rewrite history in a politically motivated way that downgrades or denies essential historical facts? How do the traditional 'national historical narratives' react to the 'spill-over' of international and political controversies into their 'sphere of influence'?Technological progress, along with the overall social and cultural decentralization shatters the old hierarchies of academic historical knowledge under the banner of culture of memory, and breeds an unequalled democratization in historical representation. This book offers a unique approach based on the provocative and instigating intersection of scholarly research, its political appropriations, and social reflection from a representative sample of Central and East European countries.

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Yes, you can access Past in the Making by Michal Kopeček, Michal Kope?ek,Michal Kope?ek,Michal Kopeček in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & 20th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Historiographic Revision and Revisionism - The Evidential Difference
  7. From Revisionism to “Revisionism” - Legal Limits to Historical Interpretation
  8. The Holocaustizing of the Transfer-Discourse” - Historical Revisionism or Old Wine in New Bottles?
  9. The Anti-Fascist Myth of the German Democratic Republic and Its Decline after 1989
  10. In Search of “National Memory” - The Politics of History, Nostalgia and the Historiography of Communism in the Czech Republic and East Central Europe
  11. The Czechoslovak Legionary Traditionand the Battle Against the “Beneš Doctrine” in Czech Historiography - The Case of General Rudolf Medek (1890–1940)
  12. Begetting & Remembering - Creating a Slovak Collective Memory in the Post-Communist World
  13. The Many Moralists and the Few Communists - Approaching Morality and Politics in Post-Communist Hungary
  14. The Revisions of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
  15. Historians Facing Politics of History - The Case of Poland
  16. Revisiting the Great Famine of 1932–1933 - Politics of Memory and Public Consciousness (Ukraine after1991)
  17. The Struggle for Official Recognition of ‘Displaced’ Group - Memories in Post-Soviet Estonia
  18. About the Authors
  19. Name Index
  20. Subject Index