Clio nei socialismi reali
Stefano Santoro e Francesco Zavatti (eds.), Clio nei socialismi reali. Il mestiere di storico nei regimi comunisti dell’Europa orientale. Milano: Unicopli, 2020. Per oltre quarant’anni, la scrittura della storia nei paesi dell’Europa orientale è stata fortemente condizionata dagli imperativi ideologici e propagandistici dei regimi comunisti. La storia, più di ogni altra disciplina umanistica, offriva giustifi cazioni, e quindi...
Battling over the Balkans
John Lampre, Constantin Iordachi Battling over the Balkans. Historiographical Questions and Controversies (CEU Press, 2019). The tumultuous history of the Balkans has been subject to a plethora of conflicting interpretations, both local and external. In an attempt to help overcome the stereotypes that still pervade Balkan history, Battling over the Balkans concentrates on a set of five principal controversies from the precommunist...
The second world war in historiography and public debate
THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC DEBATE Sabine Rutar: The Second World War in Southeastern Europe. Historiogra-phies and Debates 195-220 Milan Ristović: The German Occupation Regimes in Southeastern Europe as a Research Problem in Yugoslav and Serbian Historiography 221-238 Paolo Fonzi: Beyond the Myth of the ‘Good Italian’. Recent Trends in the Study of the Italian Occupation of Southeastern Europe during the Second...
Times of Upheaval
Pavlína Rychterov, Gábor Klaniczay, Paweł Kras, Walter Pohl Times of Upheaval Four Medievalists in Twentieth-Century Central Europe. Conversations with Jerzy Kłoczowski, János M. Bak, František Šmahel, and Herwig Wolfram (Budapest & New York: CEU Press, 2019). The volume unites conversations with four masters of Medieval Studies from east-central Europe: János Bak from Hungary, Jerzy Kłoczowski from Poland, František Šmahel from...
CfP: Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Political Present in East-Central Europe
Deadline 15 marzo 2019 Workshop Date: 12th – 13th June 2019 at Durham University, University College This workshop will explore political uses of ancient pasts and archaeology in east-central Europe in the states during the Cold War and post-communist period. While studies have often focused on individual episodes such as Dacomania in Romania or the Thracian past in Bulgaria, this workshop will bring together different approaches and...
