Narratives Unbound

Péter Apor is permanent research fellow at the Institute of History, Humanities Research Center, Budapest.Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University. Sorin Antohi is Associate Professor of History at the University of Bucharest, and at Central European University, Budapest; he is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford.

• Introduction Balázs Trencsényi and Péter Apor: Fine-Tuning the Polyphonic Past. Hungarian Historical Writing in the 1990s Maciej Górny: From the Splendid Past into the Unknown Future. Historical Studies in Poland after 1989 Pavel Kolár and Michal Kopecek: A Difficult Quest for New Paradigms: Czech Historiography After 1989 Zora Hlavicková: Wedged Between National and Trans-National History: Slovak Historiography in the 1990s Cristina Petrescu and Dragos Petrescu: Mastering vs. Coming to Terms with the Past. A Critical Analysis of Post-Communist Romanian Historiography Ivan Elenkov, Daniela Koleva: Historical Studies in Bulgaria. Between Academic Standards and Political Agendas

"An excellent addition to the existing literature on postsocialist historiography in eastern and southeastern Europe. A particular strength of the contributions is their coherence. This well-edited book will appeal not only to specialists of east central and southeastern European history and historiography but would also be an asset in classes dealing with collective memory and historiography in this region."