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- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents v
- Foreword vii
- Contributor vii
- Introduction 1
- Contributor 1
- An Obscure Object of Desire: The Myth of Alba Iulia and its Social Functions, 1918–1940 11
- Croatia between the Myths of the Nation-State and of the Common European Past 29
- Deconstructing the Myth of the “Wicked German” in Northern and Western Parts of Poland: Local Approaches to Cultural Heritage 51
- Mythologizing the Biographies of Romanian Underground Communists: The Case Study of Miron Constantinescu 67
- Women in the Communist Party: Debunking a (Post-)Communist Mythology 85
- Avatars of the Social Imaginary: Myths about Romanian Communism after 1989 101
- Post-Communist Politics of Memory and the New Regime of Historiography: Recent Controversies on the Memory of the “Forty-Five Years of the Communist Yoke” and the “Myth of Batak” 119
- The Phenomenon of “Parahistory” in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Old Theories and New Myths on Proto-Bulgarians 135
- Note on contributors 149
- Index of names 151
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents v
- Foreword vii
- Contributor vii
- Introduction 1
- Contributor 1
- An Obscure Object of Desire: The Myth of Alba Iulia and its Social Functions, 1918–1940 11
- Croatia between the Myths of the Nation-State and of the Common European Past 29
- Deconstructing the Myth of the “Wicked German” in Northern and Western Parts of Poland: Local Approaches to Cultural Heritage 51
- Mythologizing the Biographies of Romanian Underground Communists: The Case Study of Miron Constantinescu 67
- Women in the Communist Party: Debunking a (Post-)Communist Mythology 85
- Avatars of the Social Imaginary: Myths about Romanian Communism after 1989 101
- Post-Communist Politics of Memory and the New Regime of Historiography: Recent Controversies on the Memory of the “Forty-Five Years of the Communist Yoke” and the “Myth of Batak” 119
- The Phenomenon of “Parahistory” in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Old Theories and New Myths on Proto-Bulgarians 135
- Note on contributors 149
- Index of names 151