Замена наратива у циљу идеолошке пропаганде: Студија случаја Споменика борцима револуције у Ваљеву
Replacement of narratives for the purpose of ideological propaganda – Case study of the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution in Valjevo

Author(s): Vladimir Krivošejev, Željko Bjeljac
Subject(s): Politics, History, Cultural history, Historical revisionism, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: narrative; replacement of narrative; ideological propaganda; Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution; Stjepan Filipović; Valjevo; Serbia
Summary/Abstract: The primary goal of this paper is to point out the replacement of old historical narratives with new, ideological ones through a case study from the city of Valjevo. Two narratives have been singled out. The first prevailed in the Second World War, and he continued to merge the two narratives that united the focus of the historical and cultural heritage of Valjevo, from the XIX century to the end of the First World War. The second narrative was imposed after the war, with the build up of the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution, with the figure of the national hero Stjepan Filipović, as a symbol of the social revolution and the partisan movement. The idea for the construction of this monument was based on the idea related to the first narrative: setting up the Monument to the famous Valjevo fallen in all wars. In order to built up of the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution, a large old-town cemetery preceded it, where thousands of victims of the First World War were buried, both in the fighting and from typhus. The paper uses analytical-synthetic and inductive deductive methods, with the application of critical reasoning, in order to point out the ideological transmission that is being built in a civilized way and the great narrative related to the socialist resolution, and they demand that it be forgotten.

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