Implementing Post-Communist National Memory in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Author
Editor
- Conny Mithander
- John Sundholm
Summary, in English
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.
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.
Department/s
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
97-124
Publication/Series
European cultural memory post-89
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Rodopi
Topic
- History and Archaeology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9789042036185