Begetting & Remembering Creating a Slovak Collective Memory in the Post-Communist World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Historiographic Revision and Revisionism 1
5. From Revisionism to “Revisionism” Legal Limits to Historical Interpretation 17
6. The Holocaustizing of the Transfer-Discourse” Historical Revisionism or Old Wine in New Bottles? 39
7. The Anti-Fascist Myth of the German Democratic Republic and Its Decline after 1989 59
8. In Search of “National Memory” The Politics of History, Nostalgia and the Historiography of Communism in the Czech Republic and East Central Europe 75
9. The Czechoslovak Legionary Tradition and the Battle Against the “Beneš Doctrine” in Czech Historiography The Case of General Rudolf Medek (1890–1940) 97
10. Begetting & Remembering Creating a Slovak Collective Memory in the Post-Communist World 129
11. The Many Moralists and the Few Communists Approaching Morality and Politics in Post-Communist Hungary 145
12. The Revisions of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution 169
13. Historians Facing Politics of History. The Case of Poland 179
14. Revisiting the Great Famine of 1932–1933 Politics of Memory and Public Consciousness (Ukraine after 1991) 197
15. The Struggle for Official Recognition of ‘Displaced’ Group Memories in Post-Soviet Estonia 221
16. About the Authors 247
17. Name Index 251
18. Subject Index 259