The Memory of Trianon as a Political Instrument in Hungary Today

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. INTRODUCTION Historical Politics: Eastern European Convolutions in the 21st Century 1
4. German History Politics and the National Socialist Past 21
5. Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance: A Ministry of Memory? 45
6. Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Debating the History of a Single Day 59
7. The Memory of Trianon as a Political Instrument in Hungary Today 91
8. The “Politics of History” as a Case of Foreign-Policy Making 117
9. The ‘Nationalization” of History in Ukraine 141
10. The “Politics of Memory” and “Historical Policy” in Post-Soviet Moldova 175
11. Interventions: Challenging the Myths of Twentieth-Century Ukrainian History 211
12. Caught Between History and Politics: The Experience of a Moldovan Historian Studying the Holocaust 239
13. The Turns of Russian Historical Politics, from Perestroika to 2011 253
14. Politics of History in Turkey: Revisionist Historiography’s Challenge to the Official Version of the Turkish War of Liberation (1919–1922) 279
15. The Politics of History in Contemporary Japan 309
16. List of Contributors 347
17. Index 349