Usable History?

Representations of Yugoslavia's Difficult Past from 1945 to 2002

Tea Sindbæk

• Éditeur: Aarhus University Press
• Année: 2012
• ISBN:
  9788771247541
• Sujet: Histoire
• Sous-sujet: Histoire de l'Europe de l'Est

When Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, what followed was as much a Yugoslav civil war as a war of occupation and liberation. Several hundred-thousand Yugoslav civilians were killed by other Yugoslavs in large-scale massacres or concentration camps, and the horrific events left the country ruined and deeply divided. Usable History? examines the way in which the history of Yugoslavia's internal problematic past was presented and used politically and ideologically, and asks how a society can cope with such an "unmasterable" history. How did Yugoslav historians and politicians represent and explain their own history and how did these representations interact with the cultural developments, political demands and societal needs? By investigating political documents, historiography and popular representations of history such as films, songs and literature, the book's author reveals a deeply disturbing narrative of historical (mis)inter-pretation and (mis)use.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Title
• Preface
• Kapitel 1: Introduction Thematization and cardinal theme
• Kapitel 2: The Second World War in Yugoslavia
• Kapitel 3: Establishing an official narrative, 1945-1948
• Kapitel 4: Massacres in memoirs and fiction, 1945-1952
• Kapitel 5: Titoist institutional historiography, 1945-1960
• Kapitel 6: New perspectives on wartime history, 1960-1980
• Kapitel 7: Public commemorations and popular culture, 1960-1980
• Kapitel 8: The breakdown of communist history and the theme of genocide, 1980-1986
• Kapitel 9: Genocide as a cardinal theme, 1984-1989
• Kapitel 10: National conflicts and national historical cultures, 1990-2002
• Conclusion
• Literature
• Copyright