Official History in Eastern Europe
»Official history« is generally understood as state-sponsored and ideologically inclined construction of the past which serves certain political aims of mostly non-democratic regimes. The optimistic believes that it will end up with the collapse of the Soviet Union proved to be rather naive. As Pier...
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| description | »Official history« is generally understood as state-sponsored and ideologically inclined construction of the past which serves certain political aims of mostly non-democratic regimes. The optimistic believes that it will end up with the collapse of the Soviet Union proved to be rather naive. As Pierre Nora argued, over the last thirty years we have experienced a »general politicization of history« – the process of transforming what historians produce into an ideology. How are the intellectual choices made by historians today influenced by the long twentieth-century experiences of Eastern Europe? What could »official history« mean for a stateless nation or a self-proclaimed »republic«? How did Ukrainian historiography become or how was it forced to become Soviet? What spaces for individual research initiatives or even for modest disagreement with obligatory planned research existed in the official history institutions of Soviet Ukraine and socialist Poland? How were Russian textbooks on history re-written during the post-Soviet years? What role do literature, film, monuments, holidays or rituals play in the politics of history? How have memories of the Second World War been instrumentalised in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict and how have images of the ongoing war in the Donbas influenced memory debates in neighbouring post-Soviet states? All those questions are reflected in the interdisciplinary contributions to the volume by scholars from Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Lithuania, Poland, Switzerland and Ukraine. The majority of research papers were developed within the research project Divided Memories, Shared Memories. Ukraine/Russia/Poland (20th–21st centuries): An Entangled History (supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation) at the University of Geneva, and were first presented at the conference Official History in Eastern Europe. Transregional Perspectives at the German Historical Institute Warsaw in June 2018. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1650012025-08-11T14:49:27Z Official History in Eastern Europe Amacher, Korine Portnov, Andrii Serhiienko, Viktoriia Europäische Geschichte Polen Holocaust Deutschland Zwangsmigration Mitteleuropa Vertreibung Politische Bewegungen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts European history Poland Germany Forced migration Central Europe Expulsion Political movements 20th century history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTP Poland thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFG Germany thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTF Lithuania thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTV Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR7 Second World War »Official history« is generally understood as state-sponsored and ideologically inclined construction of the past which serves certain political aims of mostly non-democratic regimes. The optimistic believes that it will end up with the collapse of the Soviet Union proved to be rather naive. As Pierre Nora argued, over the last thirty years we have experienced a »general politicization of history« – the process of transforming what historians produce into an ideology. How are the intellectual choices made by historians today influenced by the long twentieth-century experiences of Eastern Europe? What could »official history« mean for a stateless nation or a self-proclaimed »republic«? How did Ukrainian historiography become or how was it forced to become Soviet? What spaces for individual research initiatives or even for modest disagreement with obligatory planned research existed in the official history institutions of Soviet Ukraine and socialist Poland? How were Russian textbooks on history re-written during the post-Soviet years? What role do literature, film, monuments, holidays or rituals play in the politics of history? How have memories of the Second World War been instrumentalised in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict and how have images of the ongoing war in the Donbas influenced memory debates in neighbouring post-Soviet states? All those questions are reflected in the interdisciplinary contributions to the volume by scholars from Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Lithuania, Poland, Switzerland and Ukraine. The majority of research papers were developed within the research project Divided Memories, Shared Memories. Ukraine/Russia/Poland (20th–21st centuries): An Entangled History (supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation) at the University of Geneva, and were first presented at the conference Official History in Eastern Europe. Transregional Perspectives at the German Historical Institute Warsaw in June 2018. 2025-08-11T14:49:26Z 2025-08-11T14:49:26Z 2021 book ONIX_20250811T164556_9783886404339_40 9783886404339 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/165001 eng Einzelveröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://www.duncker-humblot.de/9783886404339 https://elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/9783886404339 Duncker & Humblot fibre Verlag 10.3790/978-3-88640-433-9 10.3790/978-3-88640-433-9 65d50a8a-1a1d-48a7-b38f-f049cf105e5c 9783886404339 fibre Verlag 40 open access |
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| topic | Europäische Geschichte Polen Holocaust Deutschland Zwangsmigration Mitteleuropa Vertreibung Politische Bewegungen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts European history Poland Germany Forced migration Central Europe Expulsion Political movements 20th century history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTP Poland thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFG Germany thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTF Lithuania thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTV Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR7 Second World War |
| topic_facet | Europäische Geschichte Polen Holocaust Deutschland Zwangsmigration Mitteleuropa Vertreibung Politische Bewegungen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts European history Poland Germany Forced migration Central Europe Expulsion Political movements 20th century history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTP Poland thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFG Germany thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTF Lithuania thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTV Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR7 Second World War |
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