Implementing Post-Communist National Memory in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
(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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- author
- Sniegon, Tomas LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- European cultural memory post-89
- editor
- Mithander, Conny and Sundholm, John
- pages
- 97 - 124
- publisher
- Rodopi
- ISBN
- 9789042036185
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- ec748b69-7421-4ec2-817b-08e8c48f66e1 (old id 4279803)
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- 2016-04-04 11:53:12
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