Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History : Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century.

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Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: The Historical Difficulties of Regional Cooperation in a Space Where My Hero is Your Enemy; The foolish dream of a clean slate? A common past acting as both a burden and an inspiration. What to do with borders and with minorities?; What Does It Take to Become a Hero: Perspectives of Cultural Sociology and Political Science; The Legacy of Central Europe 1918â#x80;#x93;1945; Historical Consciousness in the Visegrád Four; History of Modern Central Europe, Anthropology, and Theory of Mimetic Rivalry.

My Enemyâ#x80;#x94;The Best Opportunity to Build One's Own Identity. Carl Schmitt Again. Civic and ethnic nationalism and the identity formation of Central European societies in the interwar period; A Heritage of Historic Hungaryâ#x80;#x94;Remembrance and Revisionism as an Approach to Hungarian Nation Building in the Inter-war Period; From Myths to Reality: the Regionalism of Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky (1886â#x80;#x93;1944); Å tefánik's Death and the Czecho(Slovak) Identity; Kamil Krofta and Czechoslovak Identity among Czechs, Slovaks and Germans and Others.

New Statesâ#x80;#x94;Old-new elements of nationalism in caricatures (1919â#x80;#x93;1921)Jozef Tiso: My Enemyâ#x80;#x94;Your Hero?; Jozef Tiso, Patriot or Traitor? A Slovak Debate That Has Been Carried on from the Second World War to the Present Day; Welcoming the Admiral on a White Horse: The Depictions of the Horthy Regime in Slovak Historical Culture; Changing Images of Miklós Horthy; Edvard BeneÅ¡ and His Image: 'Hero or Villain'?; Freemason, Coward, Russophile, Schemer: Edvard BeneÅ¡ in the Eyes of the Poles, 1918â#x80;#x93;45; 'A Wasted Year': WÅ#x82;adysÅ#x82;aw GomuÅ#x82;ka and 1956; Imre Nagyâ#x80;#x94;Hero or Victim?

Alexander DubÄ#x8D;ek, the Best-known Slovak PoliticianAlexander DubÄ#x8D;ek, a Czechoslovak Politician; 'Havel on Wawel!' or a Prophet is Not without Honour, but in His Own Country; WaÅ#x82;Ä#x99;sa's Absence from Czech Society; Summary: Factors Driving Nation Building Processes after 1918 and Their Implications; Persons who became myths; How to teach history today?; What is the role of history in contemporary political discourses?; How to ask about the V4 identity from historical and contemporary point of view?; Bibliography; Index.

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