Usable history? : representations of Yugoslavia's difficult pasts from 1945 to 2002 / Tea Sindbaek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sindbaek, Tea, author.

Language:

Danish

Subjects (All):

Yugoslavia--Historiography.

Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia--History--1945-1980.

Yugoslavia--History--1980-1992.

Yugoslavia--History--1992-2003.

Yugoslavia--Politics and government--1945-1980.

Yugoslavia--Politics and government--1980-1992.

Yugoslavia--Politics and government--1992-2003.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Distribution:

Lancaster, England ; Bristol, Connecticut : Gazelle Book Services Ltd. : ISD, [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

Åarhus, [Denmark] : Aarhus University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

Danish

Summary:

When Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, what followed was as much a Yugoslav civil war as a war of occupation and liberation. Several hundred-thousand Yugoslav civilians were killed by other Yugoslavs in large-scale massacres or concentration camps, and the horrific events left the country ruined and deeply divided. Usable History? examines the way in which the history of Yugoslavia's internal problematic past was presented and used politically and ideologically, and asks how a society can cope with such an "unmasterable" history. How did Yugoslav historians and politicians represent and explain their own history and how did these representations interact with the cultural developments, political demands and societal needs? By investigating political documents, historiography and popular representations of history such as films, songs and literature, the book's author reveals a deeply disturbing narrative of historical (mis)inter-pretation and (mis)use.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Colophon""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. Introduction:""; ""Thematization and cardinal theme""; ""Historical culture and use of history""; ""The importance of context""; ""Genocide, term and theme""; ""The term and theme of genocide in Yugoslavia""; ""Sources""; ""Notes""; ""2. The Second World War in Yugoslavia""; ""Disintegration and war regimes""; ""Ustasha""; ""Chetniks""; ""Partisans""; ""Partisan victory""; ""Massacres and war crimes""; ""Ustasha crimes""; ""Chetnik crimes""; ""Partisan crimes""; ""Numbers of victims""; ""Notes""

""3. Establishing an official narrative, 1945-1948""""The communist reconstruction of Yugoslavia""; ""The first official accounts""; ""The official report on Jasenovac""; ""Settling accounts""; ""The trial against Mihailovi""; ""The trial against Stepinac""; ""Tito's 1948 report of the war""; ""Notes""; ""4. Massacres in memoirs and fiction, 1945-1952""; ""The bloody cloth of Krajina massacres in memoir literature""; ""Jasenovac""; ""The war and its massacres in songs and poetry""; ""Partisan novels""; ""Notes""; ""5. Titoist institutional historiography, 1945-1960""

""Breaking with Stalinism""""Historiography and society""; ""Education""; ""Titoist historiography of the massacres""; ""The ndh and the Catholic Church""; ""Pavelie and the ndh""; ""Towards a historical synthesis""; ""Notes""; ""6. New perspectives on wartime history, 1960-1980""; ""Yugoslav politics""; ""Professionalized historiography""; ""Republican and national research environments""; ""New perspectives on Second World War history""; ""Genocide becomes an issue""; ""Dedijer's Istorija Jugoslavije""; ""Coli Takozvana Nezavisna Dreava Hrvatska""

""Towards a theme of genocide?""""Notes""; ""7. Public commemorations and popular culture, 1960-1980""; ""The memorial area of Jasenovac""; ""Partisan poetry""; ""Partisan songs""; ""Epic poems""; ""War films""; ""Partisan films""; ""The war as an inter-Yugoslav conflict""; ""History schoolbooks""; ""Notes""; ""8. The breakdown of communist history and the theme of genocide, 1980-1986""; ""Politics of crisis""; ""Fractured historical culture""; ""The breakdown of communist history""; ""The rehabilitation of the Chetniks""; ""Thematization of wartime massacres in literature""; ""Drama""

""Wartime history and the concept of genocide in public debate""""The national churches and wartime history""; ""Genocide as a metaphor Kosovo and Croatia""; ""Notes""; ""9. Genocide as a cardinal theme, 1984-1989""; ""Politics and national tensions""; ""The development of genocide historiography""; ""Jasenovac""; ""The role of the Catholic Church""; ""The trial of Andrija Artukovie""; ""Croatian reactions and genocide discussions in the press""; ""A genocidal trait of Croat culture?""; ""Jasenovac and the Jasenovac myth""; ""The Catholic Church""; ""The Artukovie trial""

""Numbers of victims""

Notes:

Cover illustration: Pavle Ilić and Vladimir Dedijer in the Montenegrin mountains during the Partisan War.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 17, 2014).

ISBN:

87-7124-754-8

87-7124-107-8