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Record Nr.

UNINA9910135352103321

Autore

Saueauk Meelis

Titolo

Historical memory versus communist identity : proceedings of the conference "The Shaping of Identity and Personality under Communist Rule: History in the Service of Totalitarian Regimes in Eastern Europe," Tallinn, 9-10 June 2011 / / Edited by Meelis Saueauk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tartu, : University of Tartu Press, 2014

Tartu : , : University of Tartu Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9789949326495 (PDF)

9949326494 (PDF)

9789949326174 (paperback)

9949326176 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 pages) : b illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Soggetti

Socialism, Communism & Anarchism

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This collection consists of articles on the subjects addressed by the research conference “The Shaping of Identity and Personality under Communist Rule: History in the Service of Totalitarian Regimes in Eastern Europe”, held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 9–10 June 2011 and arranged by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory Foundation and the Unitas Foundation. The organisers of the conference intended to describe, analyse and explain the state policies and activities used in Eastern Europe for shaping the Communist identity and personality by means of manipulating the historical consciousness, and the efficiency of those policies and activities, proceeding from the official historical approaches of the former Eastern bloc. Ideologically mutated history was the important component of the official, Communist identity. The



artificial official history and the new historical identity it forced upon the population aspired to establish the sole possible truth by means of half-truths. Probably the most important thread that comes through every article in this collection is the conflict between the official, communist identity and the nation's historical memory, and its consequences.