Između kritičke historiografije i ideološkog revizionizma

Author(s): Husnija Kamberović / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

The author reflects upon the different models of historical revision used in post-Yugoslav countries (both contemporary and immediately postwar). He observes that in every post- Yugoslav country, the most common revision concerns events from the period when they all belonged to one state or, in other words, from twentieth-century Yugoslav History. Within these revisions, the most common theme is the Second World War.

Some Lessons of Collective Protests in Central European Post-Communist Countries: Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and East Germany between 1989-1993

Author(s): Máté Szabó / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

When thinking about the traditions and the cultural heritage of contemporary protest movements, it is worth noting that East Central European history in the twentieth century has not been very rich in manifestations of political protest (Rotschild, 1989: 147-191; Schöpflin, 1993: 127-224). Despite recurrent political upheavals, revolutions, wars, and so on, protest as understood in the present paper – that is, public mobilization of support for specific demands - is not very widespread in the countries of the region.

Prošlost je naša budućnost

Author(s): Katarina Luketić / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian Publication Year: 0

Od pijanca i plota do devete rupe na svirali

Author(s): Vojin Dimitrijević / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Od Gazimestana do "Mitrovačkog zida"

Author(s): Žan-Arno Derans / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Melankolija i revolucija

Author(s): Žarko Paić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Posleratni rat polova

Author(s): Svetlana Slapšak / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Sumrak panslavenskih mitova

Author(s): Vjekoslav Perica / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

"Srbija jača od Nokie"

Author(s): Miroslava Malešević / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

O ekonomskoj tranziciji iz makroistorijske perspektive

Author(s): Vladimir Ribić / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

While at the macro-historical level we strive to elucidate large scale structures and processes in societies and their successive forms, on a micro-historical level attempts are made to distinguish individual and group contacts with these structures and processes so as to grasp how the public essentially perceived them. From its very beginnings, capitalist economy has been the grounds of interchange between two dominant trends: the strengthening of state intervention and the strive towards liberalisation. Such alterations in the field of economics are in correlation with the substitution of the modes of imperial hegemony.

Bizarre Academism and Science in Slovenia: Elements for Anthropological Study of Postsocialism and Transition

Author(s): Vlado Kotnik / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article addresses some of the aspects the academic sphere, science and intellectual culture under postsocialism offer for the understanding of transition issues in contemporary Slovenia. It starts with the surprise that has been caused by the bizarre commodification and domestication of anthropology in Slovenia, particularly at Slovenian universities, after 1990s, and tries to reflect social reception, institutional organization and academic status of anthropology in this country. Furthermore, through a specific case study of a violent debate which recently took place in Slovenia concerning the reasons for the absence of Slovenian universities on the notorious list of top 500 world universities, it tries to illustrate the essence of how academic spheres in transitional societies function. The conclusion presents some elements of social hypocrisy and discrepancy. It reveals certain facts that have taken place within the last few years, and thus helps us understand the contribution of the Slovenian state administration for science to the process of systematic transformation of this autonomous social domain of highly intellectual work into a turbo-neoliberal enterprise of wageworkers, academic lumpenproletarians, anti-intellectual jobbers, profiteers and money-spinners.

Antropologija raspada Jugoslavije: o etničkom nacionalizmu

Author(s): Vladimir Ribić / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

At the root of the civil war and the disintegration of Yugoslavia lies a clash of different ethnic nationalisms that considerably influenced the content of many anthropological debates dedicated to social phenomena which appeared in the context of the disappearance of the multinational state of the South Slavic peoples. Heuristically, the most productive method for an anthropological assessment of nationalisms is based upon an interpretation of the nationalistic idiom in the context of the structural preconditions on the national and global scene. In the Yugoslavia, a process of state decentralization that lasted several decades, as well as the culmination of the denationalization processes on a global scale, have preconditioned the advantage of the particularistic nationalisms of nonSerbian peoples, confronted by the integrated Serb nationalism.

Tranziciona budućnost: politička upotreba proročanstava u Srbiji devedesetih

Author(s): Lidija Radulović / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Media propaganda utilizes and revitalizes myths for their ability to generate nationalism. Prophesies or statements by psychics in the media, instigate and participate in the construction and reconstruction of mythologies of the Serbs in a new historical position. In this paper on the basis of discourse analysis of media propaganda, its usage in the social and political context of the nineties, is emphasized. In the prophecies, rhetoric mythical motives are being utilized: myth of the martyr and the destiny of the Serbian people as victims of a curse; the distinctions of the nation in regards of the supernatural and Para psychological motives; myth of the "golden age" that is mostly associated with the rule of Milosevic, widely considered to be the capable of leading the Serbs back to their past glory. The prophecies legitimize the existing relations of government and political dominance, construct new, or reinterpret old myths, ascribing to them new political functions that represent an element of the vital, national "mythologies of survival and identity". The usual methods of propaganda in the prophetic messages of psychics are being analyzed, and their instrumentalisation for the propagation of a model of thought magic, that is dogma free, but which relies on the psychology and the fear, are pointed out.

Postsocijalizam i tranzicija, lokalne zajednice i identiteti

Author(s): Gordana Gorunović / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

In the first section of this paper, I describe the new field in anthropology and other disciplines called transition studies, focusing on its thematic and problemic emphases, analytical, interpretive, and ideological categories. In the second section, I point to some topics that can be projected to transition studies from the phenomenological and empirical field of post-Socialist conditions in Balkan societies. The examples are two rural communities, which in the period of post-Socialism are facing new challenges – in the case of (ethnically homogenous) village Stakevci in northwestern Bulgaria, crisis of identity and survival; in the case of Orahovac, Boka Kotorska, Montenegro, the demands for the reconstruction of "national culture" in the function of preservation of ethnic, cultural and national identity.

On the (In)convertibility of National Memory into European Legitimacy

Author(s): Daniela Koleva / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The following chapter focuses on the public memory of the recent past (World War II and its aftermath) in Bulgaria. Taking the joke seriously, I start with the constructivist assumption that the messages of the past do not spontaneously emanate from it, but rather are coined in the present to respond to current needs and interests. The past therefore “keeps changing” as a consequence of the politics of history that not only seek to negotiate the narratives about the past but also to legitimize social and political actors and their causes in the present. From this perspective, I will try to track down two simultaneous but diverging tendencies in the current Bulgarian memory constructs: what might be considered (re)nationalization of memory, and its Europeanization.

Whose Revolution? Proceedings from the Event Held in Kino Kultura, Skopje, Macedonia, May 5-6, 2017

Author(s): Luka Matić,Katerina Kolozova,Branimir Jovanović,Vladimir Simović,Irena Cvetkovic,Ana Blazheva,Artan Sadiku,Anastas Vangeli / Language(s): English

Държавата КТБ

Author(s): Zornitsa Markova,Tatyana Puncheva- Vassileva,Nikolay Stoyanov,Rosen Bosev,Ilin Stanev,Ani Kodzhaivanova,Desislava Leshtarska / Language(s): Bulgarian

This book is the result of a two-year journalistic investigation that traces the history of Corporate Commercial Bank from its origin to its bankruptcy (1994-2014). The investigation was conducted on the basis of dozens of meetings with direct participants or witnesses of the events, representatives of state structures, political parties, business, regulators. In the process, hundreds of official and informal documents have been analyzed. Access to information by Bulgarian and international organizations has been requested many times. The collected facts, data, documents, and exclusive testimonies included in this book contain for the first time conclusive evidence of political corruption in Bulgaria. The aim of the KTBfiles project is to show the genesis of the "CCB model" (Corporate Commercial Bank model) and the technology of its expansion to magnitude, which pressed all key state institutions to the wall. The book explores the circumstances that made this vicious model possible, as well as the mechanisms for its eradication. This makes the investigation much more comprehensive, multi-layered and important than the chronology of bank bankruptcy, whether it is the largest in Bulgarian history. This qualitative journalistic investigation answers not only to the question #WHO but also to the questions how, why and especially what follows if we stop asking and live permanently with civil indifference and cynicism.

Izmenjeni izveštaj veštaka Mortena Torkildsena

Author(s): Morten Torkildsen / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Trzecia Pozycja jako ewolucja ideowa partii radykalnej prawicy w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej po roku 1989

Author(s): Maciej Guzy / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article touches upon the issue of the development of the ideological framework of political parties and other political organizations of the radical right in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The main aim of the author is to attempt a comprehensive description of the beliefs of the organizations in question in the light of the postulates of the so-called “Third Position,” perceived as an alternative to both liberalism and communism. The article focuses primarily on two spheres of the political life, i.e. economy and social issues. Such an innovative look at the ideological framework of the far right can, in turn, influence the perception of those political parties and organizations, both in political science as well as other social sciences.

Ідеологія й діяльність українських правих політичних партій у процесі модернізації політичної системи та захисту незалежної європейської України

Author(s): Natalia Rudakiewicz / Language(s): Ukrainian Publication Year: 0

The aim of the article is to analyze the activity and ideological foundations of Ukrainian right-wing parties, on the basis of a case study of two such parties: Svoboda and Right Sector. The author concludes that the Ukrainian right-wing organizations consistently support Ukraine’s integration with the rest of Europe, seeing in that endeavor a guarantee of freedom and independence for Ukraine. The Ukrainian right-wing parties draw ideologically from the Ukrainian national traditions and the legacy of the Ukrainian independence movement that inscribes itself into a larger European tradition.