Totalitarianism as Defensive Memory of the Transformation. Unpacking a Czech Mnemonic Conflict

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Totalitarianism as Defensive Memory of the Transformation. Unpacking a Czech Mnemonic Conflict

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This chapter traces how the concept of totalitarianism has been used in Czech memory politics. Its first half briefly outlines the history of the term after 1989 until the present, while the second half focuses on a 2020 media controversy sparked by an interview with historian Michal Pullmann. Unlike Poland or Germany where nationalist, populist and far-right forces construct the memory of 1989 as an ‘unfinished’ revolution and betrayal, in the Czech Republic, populist forces are generally less interested in staging mnemonic conflicts about the past. The champions of the discourse of totalitarianism are rather both a liberal and conservative right, not necessarily united under the auspices of a particular movement or party. Adapting Bernhard and Kubik’s concept of memory politics to media actors, the chapter analyses printed media engaged in the Pullmann debate. It shows that the memory of the communist regime as totalitarian and thus demanding active denunciation was employed by predominantly conservative commentators to consolidate a defensive memory of the post-1989 democratic transformation, which they perceived as threatened by populist forces.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Totalitarianism as Defensive Memory of the Transformation. Unpacking a Czech Mnemonic Conflict

Popis výsledku anglicky

This chapter traces how the concept of totalitarianism has been used in Czech memory politics. Its first half briefly outlines the history of the term after 1989 until the present, while the second half focuses on a 2020 media controversy sparked by an interview with historian Michal Pullmann. Unlike Poland or Germany where nationalist, populist and far-right forces construct the memory of 1989 as an ‘unfinished’ revolution and betrayal, in the Czech Republic, populist forces are generally less interested in staging mnemonic conflicts about the past. The champions of the discourse of totalitarianism are rather both a liberal and conservative right, not necessarily united under the auspices of a particular movement or party. Adapting Bernhard and Kubik’s concept of memory politics to media actors, the chapter analyses printed media engaged in the Pullmann debate. It shows that the memory of the communist regime as totalitarian and thus demanding active denunciation was employed by predominantly conservative commentators to consolidate a defensive memory of the post-1989 democratic transformation, which they perceived as threatened by populist forces.

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

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Erinnerung des Umbruchs, Umbruch der Erinnerung. Die Nachwendezeit im deutschen und ostmitteleuropäischen Gedächtnis

ISBN

978-3-658-42650-7

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

225-244

Počet stran knihy

265

Název nakladatele

Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH - Springer VS

Místo vydání

Wiesbaden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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