1st Edition
Past in the Making Historical Revisionism in Central Europe After 1989
Edited By Michal Kopecek
Copyright 2008
274 Pages
by
Central European University Press
274 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
Preface, Tucker: Historiographic Revision and Revisionism: The Evidential Difference, Petrovic: From Revisionism to “Revisionism”: Legal Limits to Historical Interpretation, Hahn : The Holocaustizing of the Transfer-Discourse: Historical Revisionism or Old Wine in New Bottles?, Loose : The Anti-Fascist Myth of the German Democratic Republic and Its Decline after 1989, Kopecek: In Search of “National Memory”: Politics of History, Nostalgia and the Historiography of Communism in the Czech Republic and East Central Europe, Kocourek: White Spaces are also Grey Spaces in Historical Revisionism: The Czech Right, 1939-1948 and the Battle against the Beneš Doctrine in Czech Historiography, Johnson: Begetting & Remembering: Creating a Slovak Collective Memory in the Post-Communist World, Laczó: The Many Moralists and the Few Communists. Approaching Morality and Politics in post-Communist Hungary, Mink: The Revisions of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Stobiecki: Historians Facing Politics of History. The Case of Poland, Kasianov: Revisiting the Great Famine of 1932-1933: Politics of Memory and Public Consciousness (Ukraine after 1991), Wulf: The Struggle for Official Recognition of ‘Displaced’ Group Memories in Post-Soviet Estonia, About the Authors, Index
Biography
Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.
