Authenticating the Past. Archives, Secret Police and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Authenticating the Past. Archives, Secret Police and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Authenticating the Past. Archives, Secret Police and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe. Regime Archives and Popular Opinion

ISBN

978-1-3500-5171-3

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

207-222

Počet stran knihy

248

Název nakladatele

Bloomsbury Academic

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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