1st Edition
Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits Post-Communist Historiography between Democratization and the New Politics of History
Edited By Oto Luthar
Copyright 2017
256 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1 On the (In)convertibility of National Memory into European Legitimacy: The Bulgarian Case, Chapter 2 Equalizing Jesus's, Jewish and Croat Suffering—Post-Socialist Politics of History in Croatia, Chapter 3 Wars of Memory in Post-Communist Romania, Chapter 4 Reflections on the Principles of the Critical Culture of Memory, Chapter 5 The Struggle for Legitimacy: Constructing the National History of Slovakia After 1989, Chapter 6 Victims and Traditions: Narratives of Hungarian National History After the Age of Extremes, Chapter 7 Instrumentalization of History in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chapter 8 Post-Socialist Historiography Between Democratization and New Exclusivist Politics of History, Authors Bibliography, Index
Biography
Oto Luthar is professor at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
