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      Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits. Post-Communist Historiography between Democrati
      Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits. Post-Communist Historiography between Democrati

      Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits. Post-Communist Historiography between Democrati

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      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 wartime collaboration, casting the nation as victim even when its government was allied with Germany. While the Jewish Holocaust is acknowledged, its meaning and significance are obfuscated. In their comparative analysis the authors are also interested in new practices of ‘Europeanness’. Therefore their presentations of Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnia
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      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 wartime collaboration, casting the nation as victim even when its government was allied with Germany. While the Jewish Holocaust is acknowledged, its meaning and significance are obfuscated. In their comparative analysis the authors are also interested in new practices of ‘Europeanness’. Therefore their presentations of Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian post-communist memory politics move beyond the common national myths in order to provide a new insight into transnational interactions and exchanges in Europe in general. The juxtaposition of the
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      Author
      Luthar Oto
      Publisher
      CEU Press
      Central European University Press
      ISBN
      9789633861516
      Format
      Hardcover
      Year Published
      2017
      Pages
      256

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      Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits. Post-Communist Historiography between Democrati
      Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits. Post-Communist Historiography between Democrati

      Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits. Post-Communist Historiography between Democrati

      $65.00