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Quest for a Suitable Past Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghita.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-communism--Social aspects--History.
- Post-communism.
- Communism--Social aspects--History.
- Communism.
- Memory--Political aspects--History.
- Memory.
- Memory--Social aspects--History.
- Myth--Political aspects--History.
- Myth.
- Myth--Social aspects--History.
- Europe, Central--Politics and government.
- Europe, Central.
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Central--Social life and customs.
- Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Central European University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The present volume, In Search of Better Times : Myth and Memory in Eastern and Central Europe, brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking from the nineteenth century to the present day. In particular, it makes a novel contribution to the study of the complex process through which memories are transformed into myths. This problematic interplay between memory and myth-making is analyzed in conjunction with the role of myths in the political and social life of the region"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Claudia-Florentina Dobre
- An obscure object of desire : the myth of Alba Iulia and its social functions, 1918-1940 / Gábor Egry
- Croatia between the myths of the nation-state and of the common European past / Neven Budak
- Deconstructing the myth of the "wicked German" in northern and western parts of Poland : local approaches to cultural heritage / Izabela Skórzynska and Anna Wachowiak
- Mythologizing the biographies of Romanian underground communists : the case study of Miron Constantinescu / Stefan Bosomitu
- Women in the Communist Party : debunking a (post-)communist mythology / Luciana-Marioara Jinga
- Avatars of the social imaginary : myths about Romanian communism after 1989 / Claudia-Florentina Dobre
- 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" / Liliana Deyanova
- The phenomenon of "parahistory" in post-communist Bulgaria : old theories and new myths on proto-Bulgarians / Alexander Nikolov.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-72156-7
- 963-386-138-1
- 9781003721567
- OCLC:
- 1004392604
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