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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822303203321

Titolo

Narratives unbound : historical studies in post-communist Eastern Europe / / edited by Sorin Antohi, Balazs Trencsenyi and Peter Apor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Central European University Press, 2007

ISBN

9786155211294

978-6-15521-129-4

615-5211-29-9

1-281-37683-3

9786611376833

1-4294-8364-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 488 pages)

Collana

Pasts incorporated Narratives unbound

Altri autori (Persone)

AntohiSorin

TrencsenyiBalazs <1973->

AporPeter

Disciplina

947.00072

Soggetti

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Fine-tuning the polyphonic past : Hungarian historical writing in the 1990's / Balázs Trencsenyi and Peter Apor--  From the splendid past into the unknown future : historical studies in Poland after 1989 / Maciej Górny -- A difficult quest for new paradigms : Czech historiography after 1989 / Pavel Kolář and Michal Kopeček --  Wedged between national and trans-national history : Slovak historiography in the 1990's / Zora Hlavičková --  Mastering vs. coming to terms with the past : a critical analysis of post-communist Romanian historiography / Cristina Petrescu and Dragoş Petrescu-- Historical studies in post-communist Bulgaria : between academic standards and political agendas / Ivan Elenkov and Daniela Koleva.

Sommario/riassunto

The first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. A uniquely critical



and qualitative analysis from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself. Focusing on the first post-Communist decade, 1989–1999, the book offers a longer-term perspective that includes the immediate 'prehistory' of that momentous decade as well as its 'posthistoire'. The authors capture the spirit of 1989, that heady mix of elation, surprise, determination, and hope: l'ivresse du possible. This was the paradoxical beginning of Eastern European post-Communism: ushered in by 'anti-Utopian' revolutions, and slowly finding its course towards a bureaucratic, imitative, challenging, and anachronistic restoration of a capitalism that had changed almost beyond recognition when it had mutated into the negative double of Communism. Each individual chapter has numerous and detailed notes and references.