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Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and. Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Easte.
The Limits of Okinawa. Communist Currents, The Structure of World History. In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism.
The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist.
The studies look at actors from political parties to individual historians , institutions museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions , methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon. This policy line, effectuated under the motto of consolidating German patriotism, was aimed at fortifying his victory over the Social Democrats in official historical discourse.
It was then that the broad use of history for political purposes, so typical of Eastern European countries in the early s, got its name. Soon afterwards, the notion of historical policy spread across Polish borders to neighboring countries. An unknown error has occurred. Please click the button below to reload the page.