Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Contributor vii
5. Introduction 1
6. Contributor 1
7. An Obscure Object of Desire: The Myth of Alba Iulia and its Social Functions, 1918–1940 11
8. Croatia between the Myths of the Nation-State and of the Common European Past 29
9. Deconstructing the Myth of the “Wicked German” in Northern and Western Parts of Poland: Local Approaches to Cultural Heritage 51
10. Mythologizing the Biographies of Romanian Underground Communists: The Case Study of Miron Constantinescu 67
11. Women in the Communist Party: Debunking a (Post-)Communist Mythology 85
12. Avatars of the Social Imaginary: Myths about Romanian Communism after 1989 101
13. 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
14. The Phenomenon of “Parahistory” in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Old Theories and New Myths on Proto-Bulgarians 135
15. Note on contributors 149
16. Index of names 151