Revising History in Communist Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revising History in Communist Europe write by David A. J. Reynolds. This book was released on 2020-01-31. Revising History in Communist Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Those who define the past control the present. 'Revising History in Communist Europe' shows how the manipulation of history both empowered and weakened the communist regimes of post-World War Two Europe. It demonstrates how seismic events of the recent past reverberate in the understandings of the present, determining perceptions and decisions. With fresh analysis on the imposed communist definition of Hungary's 1956 uprising and its effects on the definition of the Prague Spring, this study will give readers a timely and penetrating insight into both landmark events.
Past in the Making
Past in the Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Past in the Making write by Michal Kopeček. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Past in the Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
History of Communism in Europe vol. 1 / 2010
History of Communism in Europe vol. 1 / 2010 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Communism in Europe vol. 1 / 2010 write by Corina Dobos. This book was released on 2010-01-01. History of Communism in Europe vol. 1 / 2010 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rewriting History in Soviet Russia
Rewriting History in Soviet Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rewriting History in Soviet Russia write by R. Markwick. This book was released on 2001-02-01. Rewriting History in Soviet Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the political significance of the development of historical revisionism in the USSR under Khrushchev in the wake of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU and its demise with the onset of the 'period of stagnation' under Brezhnev. On the basis of intensive interviews and original manuscript material, the book demonstrates that the vigorous rejuvenation of historiography undertaken by Soviet historians in the 1960s conceptually cleared the way for and fomented the dramatic upheaval in Soviet historical writing occasioned by the advent of perestroika.
The Convolutions of Historical Politics
The Convolutions of Historical Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Convolutions of Historical Politics write by Alekse? I. Miller. This book was released on 2012-01-01. The Convolutions of Historical Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia as case studies), but also includes articles on Germany, Japan and Turkey, which provide a much needed comparative dimension. The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism. The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist. The studies look at actors (from political parties to individual historians), institutions (museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions), methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon.
