Historijski revizionizam i ideološko-vrijednosni sistemi
Historical Revisionism and Ideological-Value Systems

Summary/Abstract: The past and the present cannot be separated because one interpets the other. At the end of the 20th century, with major geopolitical changes, the perception of peoples and states on their own past changed profoundly in the Balkans. Its reworking and instrumentalization were induced by the complex permeation of the altered global relationship of national and ideological forces and local governing interests. The disintegration of the ideological paradigm and the dramatic dissolution of Yugoslavia were accompanied, according to the needs of time, by the rapid construction of new national identities, with the outbreak of „a civil war between different memories“, the reverse „historiographical perspective“, the replacement of attitudes and reshaping the different layers of consciousness. These processes which occured in post-Yugoslav countries, in „transitional historiography“, along with the emotionalization of discourse and a new „reduction“ of totality led to „retraditionalization“, to problematic waves of historical revisionism related to the Second World War, correction of the so-called historical injustices, normalization of collaborationism, nationalisation and relativisation of the term anti-fascism. Revisionism is based on selective forgetting and construction of „desirable history“, it represents „reworking of the past carried by clear or covert intentions to justify narrower national or political goals“. It is an obvious expression of political culture in a society. Abuses of interpretation of historical events, fierce prejudices and quasi-historical analyzes in the services of politics can damage interethnic relations and may lead to furhter growth of tension and distancing between the peoples and states in the Balkan region.

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