Politické paměti komunismu
The Political Memory of Communism

Summary/Abstract: Mayer, Françoise. Les Tchèques et leur communisme: Mémoire et identité politiques. Paris: Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2004, 304 pp. The reviewer describes the book under review as a many-layered, inspired work, in which the author, a French historian, examines how the memories of Communism were formed in various interest groups of Czech society after 1989 and how they shared in shaping their socio-political identity. Her actual topic is an analysis of the discourse of the 'politics' of memory, with an emphasis on disputes about its legislative framework, and, at the next level, an interpretation of important factors of Czechoslo¬vak political history in the 1990s. In her individual chapters the author focuses on former dissidents, Communists and heirs of the CPCz, former 'Normalizers', political prisoners, agents, collaborators of the secret police, and historians.

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