Authenticating the Past. Archives, Secret Police and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Authenticating the Past. Archives, Secret Police and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism
Original language description
After the regime change of 1989, the archives of the communist security services in Czechoslovakia and later Czech Republic became a hotly contested topic in public debate, but also a subject of representation in literature and film. This chapter explores representations of the archive and the secret police agent in Czech popular culture against a background of institutional memory politics, as represented in particular by the activities of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. The chapter argues that the presumed credibility of archival documents allowed cultural producers to introduce moral categories in fictional narratives. It illustrates how this trend of „authenticating the past”via recourse to the archives in representation arose in the context of an increased preoccupation on the part of distinct state and NGO actors with manufacturing a national memory of anti-communist heroic resistance from the late 2000s onwards.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe. Regime Archives and Popular Opinion
ISBN
978-1-3500-5171-3
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
207-222
Number of pages of the book
248
Publisher name
Bloomsbury Academic
Place of publication
London
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