Hledání nových alternativ pro výzkum komunistických režimů
In Search of New Alternatives in Research on Communist Regimes

Summary/Abstract: Review: Kopeček, Michal (ed.). Past in the Making: Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989. Budapest and New York: Central University Press, 2008, x + 264 pp. The volume under review is considered in the context of current research on collective memory, the politics of history, and historical revisionism, and it highlights its innovative potential for international comparative history and the search for new approaches to the study of Communist regimes and their societies. The volume, the reviewer argues, beneficially links together theoretical and methodological essays with concrete analysis of historical material in case studies devoted to the ‘creation of the past’ in sensitive areas of collective memory in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (and the former Czechoslovakia), Poland, the Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Germany, and Estonia.

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