The collapse of the communist states is regarded as the starting point of the new Europe. With this turning point, historical narratives have had to be rewritten in the post-socialist countries. Focusing on the little known case of Slovenia, this issue of zeitgeschichte offers a comprehensive survey of the transformations affecting collective memory and the writing of history in one post-communist country. The essays analyze the ways in which Slovenian society has grappled with traumatic historical events and thus give insight into the ongoing struggle over the interpretation of Slovenia’s past. Given the proliferating illiberal tendencies in the political culture of numerous European countries, the strategies of historical revisionism described in this issue are likely to be of considerable interest not only to scholars interested specifi cally in the case of Slovenia.
Inhalt
Heidemarie Uhl Editorial 177
Oto Luthar Introduction 179
Artikel
Marta Verginella Political Remake of Slovenian History and Trivialisation of Memory 189
Bojan Godesa Slovenian Historiography in the Grip of Reconciliation 205
Marko Zajc The Politics of Memory in Slovenia and the Erection of the Monument to the Victims of All Wars 225
Marusa Pusnik Media-Based Historical Revisionism and the Public’s Memories of the Second World War 241
Oto Luthar The Sanitation of Slovenian Post-Socialist Memorial Landscape 261
zeitgeschichte extra
Petra Mayrhofer Searching for “1989” on the Transnational Remembrance Landscape: A Topography 277
Abstracts 295
Rezensionen
Brigitte Entner Robert Knight, Slavs in Post-Nazi Austria 301
Heimo Gruber Alfred Pfoser/Andreas Weigl, Die erste Stunde Null 303
Franz Mathis Günter Bischof/Hans Petschar, Der Marshallplan 306
Autor/inn/en 309