PROBLEMS OF THE HISTORICAL TREATMENT OF THE WORLD WAR II: ANTI-FASCISM, COLLABORATION AND ANTI COMMUNISM
PROBLEMS OF THE HISTORICAL TREATMENT OF THE WORLD WAR II: ANTI-FASCISM, COLLABORATION AND ANTI COMMUNISM

Summary/Abstract: Like in all other countries of the former Eastern bloc, in Albania as well, the historiography during the period of socialism was dictated by the Party - State system, both in its interpretations and from the point of view of using archival sources. Besides restrictions with access to domestic archives, where a special permit was needed for the use of certain archival funds, as for instance those of the Party of Labor of Albania to work on certain research topics, particularly on the Anti Fascist National Liberation Struggle period, another more serious problem for researchers was also the inability to confront domestic with foreign sources, since access to foreign archives was extremely difficult, not to say impossible. These limitations applied to a larger extent to World War II period and more precisely the Anti - Fascist National Liberation Struggle and thereafter, since for researchers of previous periods it was easier and in essence not very problematic regarding the spirit dictated by the powers of that time on the historiography itself.

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