6. Victims and Traditions: Narratives of Hungarian National History After the Age of Extremes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction. “Red Dragon and the Evil Spirits” 1
5. 1. On the (In)convertibility of National Memory into European Legitimacy: The Bulgarian Case 11
6. 2. Equalizing Jesus’s, Jewish, and Croat Suffering—Post-Socialist Politics of History in Croatia 33
7. 3 Wars of Memory in Post-Communist Romania 59
8. 4. Reflections on the Principles of the Critical Culture of Memory 87
9. 5. The Struggle for Legitimacy: Constructing the National History of Slovakia After 1989 115
10. 6. Victims and Traditions: Narratives of Hungarian National History After the Age of Extremes 139
11. 7. Instrumentalization of History in Bosnia and Herzegovina 159
12. 8. Post-Socialist Historiography Between Democratization and New Exclusivist Politics of History 187
13. Authors 209
14. Bibliography 211
15. Index 245