EVOKIMI DHE PËRDORIMI POLITIK I FIGURËS SË SKËNDERBEUT NË SHQIPËRI (1912 – fillim i shekullit XXI)
EVOCATION AND THE POLITICAL USE OF THE IMAGE OF SCANDERBEG IN ALBANIA (1912 – the beginning of XXI century)

Summary/Abstract: The focus of a modest synthesis on the political evocation of the sublime personalities of the history of Albania, can never be considered adequate without referring to the treatmentof the figure of Skanderbeg up to nowadays. During the Albanian National Renaissance, Skanderbeg’s name was used with a much wider range and in accordance with the tasks that Albanians had to face at that time. All the ancestors who had tried to climb the throne of Albania, including the Albanian warrior and ruler of mid-eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, Ali Pasha Tepelena, Renaissance protagonists, Ismail Qemal etc., as well as Ahmet Zogu, who ruled with short interruptions from 1920 to 1939, tried by all means to link their own names with the memory of Skanderbeg, whose fame and homage were still strong and widespread throughout the country. The image, status and historical values of Skanderbeg will be used politically during the communist regime as well, especially in three main directions: in the interest of its political and propagandist program intending the patriotic education of the people, as a propaganda tool and call for sacrifices, self-denial, and even self-sacrifice in service to the cause of the motherland and socialism, as the model of a popular leader, featured more or less the same as the communist leadership.

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