The Textbook Myth: Slovene Peasants as Heroes of the Glorious Past.
The Textbook Myth: Slovene Peasants as Heroes of the Glorious Past.

Summary/Abstract: The present article describes how 16th century peasant uprisings became an essential part of the Slovene history curricula and analyzes their role in the present-day official understanding of Slovene national history. It argues that the established textbook narrations on peasant uprisings greatly contribute to the hegemonic representation of affirmative, unilinear and teleological historical development of the Slovene nation, which ultimately implies an “unavoidable” establishment of Slovenia as a nation state in 1991.

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