Narratives Unbound

Historical studies in post-communist Eastern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-963-7326-85-1
Verlag: Central European University Press

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 887 g

Reihe: CEU Pasts Incorporated: Studies in the Humanities

The first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. A uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself. Focusing on the first post-Communist decade, 1989–1999, the book offers a longer-term perspective that includes the immediate 'prehistory' of that momentous decade as well as its 'posthistoire'. The authors capture the spirit of 1989, that heady mix of elation, surprise, determination, and hope: l'ivresse du possible. This was the paradoxical beginning of Eastern European post-Communism: ushered in by 'anti-Utopian' revolutions, and slowly finding its course towards a bureaucratic, imitative, challenging, and anachronistic restoration of a capitalism that had changed almost beyond recognition when it had mutated into the negative double of Communism. Each individual chapter has numerous and detailed notes and references.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trencsényi, Balázs

Apor, Péter

Antohi, Sorin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Apor, Péter
Péter Apor is permanent research fellow at the Institute of History, Humanities Research Center, Budapest.

Antohi, Sorin
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.

Trencsényi, Balázs
Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.