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Implementing Post-Communist National Memory in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Sniegon, Tomas LU (2013) p.97-124
Abstract
The chapter contains an analysis of two similar attempts to institutionalise ‘national memory’ in the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the fall of Communism and dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The study focuses on two documents that create a legal basis for such

institutionalisation and on the main actors who initiated the decisions to create these institutes. It is argued that although the original reasons explaining the necessity to establish these new institutes in Bratislava and Prague were defined firstly as moral and scientific, the institutes became primarily ideological tools of the new governing post-Communist elites that served to centralise control of the collective ‘national’ memory.
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European cultural memory post-89
editor
Mithander, Conny and Sundholm, John
pages
97 - 124
publisher
Rodopi
ISBN
9789042036185
language
English
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yes
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institutionalisation and on the main actors who initiated the decisions to create these institutes. It is argued that although the original reasons explaining the necessity to establish these new institutes in Bratislava and Prague were defined firstly as moral and scientific, the institutes became primarily ideological tools of the new governing post-Communist elites that served to centralise control of the collective ‘national’ memory.}},
  author       = {{Sniegon, Tomas}},
  booktitle    = {{European cultural memory post-89}},
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