The convolutions of historical politics / edited by Alexei Miller and Maria Lipman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, A. I. (Alekseĭ Ilʹich), 1959-

Lipman, Marii︠a︡.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Political aspects--Europe--Case studies.

Historiography.

Historiography--Political aspects.

Europe.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 355 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia as case studies), but also includes articles on Germany, Japan and Turkey, which provide a much needed comparative dimension. The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism. The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist. The studies look at actors (from political parties to individual historians), institutions (museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions), methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon.

Contents:

Introduction: historical politics: Eastern European convolutions in the 21st century / Alexei Miller

German history politics and the National Socialist past / Stefan Berger

Poland's institute of national remembrance: a ministry of memory? / Dariusz Stola

Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: debating the history of a single day / Maciej Janowski

The memory of Trianon as a political instrument in Hungary today / Gábor Gyáni

The "politics of history" as a case of foreign-policy making / Alexander Astrov

The "nationalization" of history in Ukraine / Georgiy Kasianov

The "politics of memory" and "historical policy" in post-Soviet Moldova / Andrei Cusco

Interventions: challenging the myths of twentieth-century Ukrainian history / John-Paul Himka

Caught between history and politics: the experience of a Moldovan historian studying the Holocaust / Diana Dumitru

The turns of Russian historical politics, from Perestroika to 2011 / Alexei Miller

Politics of history in Turkey: revisionist historiography's challenge to the official version of the Turkish war of independence / Sener Aktürk

The politics of history in contemporary Japan / Jeff Kingston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786155225154

615522515X

OCLC:

793581894