Published: 2012-10-30
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The paper addresses the ways contemporary history (the “short 20th century”; 1914–1989) is represented in the national museums of post-communist East-Central Europe. It focuses particularly on the Hungarian House of Terror; and draws on examples from Romania; Hungary; Poland; Czech Republic; Serbia and the Baltic Republics. The representations of communism regularly reflect two interrelated problems: how to contain Fascism and how to maintain the idea of an eternal set of continuous national qualities; a mystical concept of the nation.
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