Quest for a Suitable Past : Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe / / edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghita

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2016; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (pages cm)
• Disciplina: 943
• Soggetto topico: Post-communism - Social aspects - History; Communism - Social aspects - History; Memory - Political aspects - History; Memory - Social aspects - History; Myth - Political aspects - History; Myth - Social aspects - History
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Central Politics and government; Europe, Eastern Politics and government; Europe, Central Social life and customs; Europe, Eastern Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Communism, Central and Eastern Europe, Historiography, Memory politics, Postcommunism
• Altri autori: GhitaCristian Emilian DobreClaudia-Florentina
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- An obscure object of desire : the myth of Alba Iulia and its social functions, 1918-1940 / Gábor Egry -- Croatia between the myths of the nation-state and of the common European past / Neven Budak -- Deconstructing the myth of the "wicked German" in northern and western parts of Poland : local approaches to cultural heritage / Izabela Skórzynska and Anna Wachowiak -- Mythologizing the biographies of Romanian underground communists : the case study of Miron Constantinescu / Stefan Bosomitu -- Women in the Communist Party : debunking a (post-)communist mythology / Luciana-Marioara Jinga -- Avatars of the social imaginary : myths about Romanian communism after 1989 / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- Post-communist politics of memory and the new regime of historiography : recent controversies on the memory of the "Forty-five years of the communist yoke" and the "Myth of Batak" / Liliana Deyanova -- The phenomenon of "parahistory" in post-communist Bulgaria : old theories and new myths on proto-Bulgarians / Alexander Nikolov.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The present volume, In Search of Better Times : Myth and Memory in Eastern and Central Europe, brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking from the nineteenth century to the present day. In particular, it makes a novel contribution to the study of the complex process through which memories are transformed into myths. This problematic interplay between memory and myth-making is analyzed in conjunction with the role of myths in the political and social life of the region"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Quest for a Suitable Past
• ISBN: 963-386-138-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810012103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II