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Title Past in the making : historical revisionism in Central Europe after 1989 / edited by Michal Kopeček
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2008

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Contents Historiographic revision and revisionism : the evidential difference / Aviezer Tucker -- From revisionism to "revisionism" : legal limits to historical interpretation / Vladimir Petrović -- "The Holocaustizing of the transfer-discourse" : historical revisionism or old wine in new bottles? / Eva Hahn and Hans Henning Hahn -- The anti-fascist myth of the German Democratic Republic and its decline after 1989 / Ingo Loose -- In search of "national memory" : the politics of history, nostalgia and the historiography of communism in the Czech Republic and East Central Europe / Michal Kopeček -- The Czechoslovak Legionary tradition and the battle against the "Beneš doctrine" in Czech historiography : the case of General Rudolf Medek (1890-1940) / Katya A.M. Kocourek -- Begetting & remembering : creating a Slovak collective memory in the post-communist world / Owen V. Johnson -- The many moralists and the few communists : approaching morality and politics in post-communist Hungary / Ferenc Laczó -- The revisions of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution / András Mink -- Historians facing politics of history : the case of Poland / Rafał Stobiecki -- Revisiting the Great Famine of 1932-1933 : politics of memory and public consciousness (Ukraine after 1991) / Georgiy Kasianov -- The struggle for official recognition of "displaced" group memories in post-Soviet Estonia / Meike Wulf
Summary 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
Notes A collection of papers from the international workshop, held in Prague in Oct. 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Association Mitteleuropa gnd
Subject HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Historiography
Geschichtsschreibung
Revisionisme (geschiedenis)
Geschiedschrijving.
SUBJECT Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
Subject Central Europe
Osteuropa
Mitteleuropa
Midden-Europa.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kopeček, Michal.
ISBN 9781435616127
143561612X
9786155211423
6155211426
2821815239
9782821815230