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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Politics of History"”.
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The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Polish politics of history
This dissertation examines the background and history of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, opened in 2004 in the Polish capital, and its role in the historical policy pursued by the founders of Poland’s Law and Justice party. It argues that while the museum would morph into a major cultural landmark, …
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The Politics of History and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the ‘Prussia-Renaissance’ in the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It explores the cultural and political reasons why the official histories of the communist East German state began during this period to …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
Memory of the traumatic Soviet past has both dominated the politics of history in Estonia and been a key determining factor in building a national post-Soviet European identity. As a result, the Holocaust in Estonia has played a less substantial role in both scholarship, and public debate, …
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Ludzkie szczątki i polityka. Antropologia hiszpańskich ekshumacji od wojny domowej po współczesność
W pracy analizuję ekshumacje ofiar wojny domowej w Hiszpanii, traktując je jako zjawisko o złożonym charakterze społecznym i politycznym. Rozpoczynając od przedstawienia genezy masowych grobów, poprzez dzieje praktyk ekshumacyjnych, pokazuję, jak ich zmieniające się formy i konteksty …
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Online and brick-and-mortar museums in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-present)
… venturing into the online sphere. Researchers of the Internet, in turn, tended to stay away from historical museums. As a result, the existing scholarship only partially explains how narratives of the past are forged in Central and Eastern Europe. This gap in research is pressing especially …