Past in the Making

Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.

• Preface Tucker: Historiographic Revision and Revisionism: The Evidential Difference; Petrovic: From Revisionism to “Revisionism”: Legal Limits to Historical Interpretation; Hahn : The Holocaustizing of the Transfer-Discourse: Historical Revisionism or Old Wine in New Bottles?; Loose : The Anti-Fascist Myth of the German Democratic Republic and Its Decline after 1989; Kopecek: In Search of “National Memory”: Politics of History, Nostalgia and the Historiography of Communism in the Czech Republic and East Central Europe; Kocourek: White Spaces are also Grey Spaces in Historical Revisionism: The Czech Right, 1939-1948 and the Battle against the Beneš Doctrine in Czech Historiography; Johnson: Begetting & Remembering: Creating a Slovak Collective Memory in the Post-Communist World; Laczó: The Many Moralists and the Few Communists. Approaching Morality and Politics in post-Communist Hungary; Mink: The Revisions of the 1956 Hungarian revolution; Stobiecki: Historians Facing Politics of History. The Case of Poland; Kasianov: Revisiting the Great Famine of 1932-1933: Politics of Memory and Public Consciousness (Ukraine after 1991); Wulf: The Struggle for Official Recognition of ‘Displaced’ Group Memories in Post-Soviet Estonia, About the Authors Index

"Historical revisionism has a number of different meanings. In this context the term provides a peg for discussing a variety of reinterpretations of tha past among professional historians and politicians, and in a more general collective memory. A major merit of the book is its demonstration of the extent to which re-evaluations of history are bound up with changes in politics and society"