PUBLIC SPHERE – A FORUM OR A BOXING RING?
PUBLIC SPHERE – A FORUM OR A BOXING RING?

Summary/Abstract: Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall revision of history and consequent political revisionism have been usually referred to in the context of post-socialist societies of Eastern Europe. In the process of their transformation into neoliberal societies pictures about the past have been changed, often to the extent that they entailed totally inversed interpretations of historical events, figures and processes, and became constitutive parts of new ideological concepts and footholds to numerous right-wing and conservative movements, and political narratives. In transitional countries, revision, as a notion, has lost its affirmative connotation (of something logically necessary for advancement of the knowledge about the past) and in colloquial and political speech became synonymous to revisionism. Publication of “new” facts and new, value-based interpretations of the past generated dangerous historical forgeries meant to back up unprincipled compromises and legitimize dubious politi¬cal figures and movements.

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