Table of Contents

1. Contributors; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Preface (by Hauge, Kjetil Ra); 4. Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of communism: Introductory thoughts (by Gammelgaard, Karen); 5. Analyses; 6. Chapter 1. Collective memory and media genres: Serbian Statehood Day 2002-2010 (by Saric, Ljiljana); 7. Chapter 2. The quest for a proper Bulgarian national holiday (by Hauge, Kjetil Ra); 8. Chapter 3. The multiple symbolism of 3 May in Poland after the fall of communism (by Halas, Elzbieta); 9. Chapter 4. "Dan skuplji vijeka," 'A day more precious than a century': Constructing Montenegrin identity by commemorating Independence Day (by Felberg, Tatjana Radanovic); 10. Chapter 5. Croatia in search of a national day: Front-page presentations of national-day celebrations, 1988-2005 (by Saric, Ljiljana); 11. Chapter 6. Contested pasts, contested red-letter days: Antifascist commemorations and ethnic identities in post-communist Croatia (by Pavlakovic, Vjeran); 12. Chapter 7. Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1 August 1944: International relational aspects of commemorative practices (by Ensink, Titus); 13. Chapter 8. Ilinden: Linking a Macedonian past, present and future (by Soldic, Marko); 14. Chapter 9. Slovak national identity as articulated in the homilies of a religious holiday (by Bielicki, Alexander); 15. Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October: Stability and change in four presidential addresses 1988-2008 (by Gammelgaard, Karen); 16. Chapter 11. Disputes over national holidays: Bosnia and Herzegovina 2000-2010 (by Monnesland, Svein); 17. Chapter 12. What Europe means for Poland: The front-page coverage of Independence Day in Gazeta Wyborcza 1989-2009 (by Grimstad, Knut Andreas); 18. References; 19. Appendix A. List of current laws on national holidays in West and South Slavic countries; 20. Index