Foreword
Lucian Boia
Introduction
Claudia-Florentina Dobre
An Obscure Object of Desire: The Myth of Alba Iulia and its
Social Functions, 1918–1940
Gábor Egry
Croatia between the Myths of the Nation-State and of the Common
European Past
Neven Budak
Deconstructing the Myth of the “Wicked German” in Northern and
Western Parts of Poland: Local Approaches to Cultural Heritage
Izabela Skórzyńska and Anna Wachowiak
Mythologizing the Biographies of Romanian Underground
Communists: The Case Study of Miron Constantinescu
Ştefan Bosomitu
Women in the Communist Party: Debunking a (Post-)Communist
Mythology
Luciana-Marioara Jinga
Avatars of the Social Imaginary: Myths about Romanian Communism
after 1989
Claudia-Florentina Dobre
Post-Communist Politics of Memory and the New Regime of
Historiography: Recent Controversies on the Memory of the
“Forty-Five Years of the Communist Yoke” and the “Myth of
Batak”
Liliana Deyanova
The Phenomenon of “Parahistory” in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Old
Theories and New Myths on Proto-Bulgarians
Alexander Nikolov
Note on contributors
Index of names
Claudia-Florentina Dobre is currently the editor-in-chief of the cultural journal Memoria and an associate researcher at Regional Center of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (CeReFREA), University of Bucharest. She has published extensively on the memory of Romanian communism and political persecution; museums, monuments, and memorials; and on everyday life under communism. Cristian Emilian Ghita has a PhD in classics and ancient history from the University of Exeter. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bucharest. His interests include Hellenistic studies, Asia Minor, and ancient warfare. All of these are fortuitously combined in his current research project, "Military Traditions and Innovations in Hellenistic Asia Minor."
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