In search of “national memory”: The politics of history, nostalgia and the historiography of communism in the Czech republic and east central Europe

Past in the Making: Historical Revisionism in Central Europe After 1989

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 75-95

  Kopeček, Michal ^a  

^a Institute of Contemporary History   (Czech Republic)

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