The “Ideologically Defective Tank”: Memory Politics and Historical Reenactment at the 2016 Pilsen Liberation Festival
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2025.2533633" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2025.2533633</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2025.2533633" target="_blank" >10.1080/13518046.2025.2533633</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The “Ideologically Defective Tank”: Memory Politics and Historical Reenactment at the 2016 Pilsen Liberation Festival
Original language description
This research note focuses on the Liberation Festival in Pilsen, one of the largest annual commemorations of the end of the Second World War in Europe. The aim of the paper is to show how the legacy of the Second World War as one of the most conflicting historical topics in the CEE region serves as a central instrument in contemporary political/ideological disputes over collective memory. The authors explain how this works through the specific case of the Soviet tank, which was supposed to be a mere historical requisite in the reenactment of historical battle during the 2016 Liberation Festival, but became a symbolic object of contemporary politics – one of the issues discursively interconnected into what we call “deadly cocktail”. In doing so, the paper builds on the debates on the politics of memory, historical reenactments, and war memorials and their role in constructing collective memory and identity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
ISSN
1351-8046
e-ISSN
1556-3006
Volume of the periodical
38
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
265-274
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105012869003