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Historiographical Revisionism and Re-Articulation of Memory in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

@inproceedings{Marinov2010HistoriographicalRA,
  title={Historiographical Revisionism and Re-Articulation of Memory in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia},
  author={Tchavdar T. Marinov},
  year={2010}
}

• T. Marinov
• Published 2010
• History

In the famous Lieux de mémoire, the French historian Pierre Nora outlines the main forms of a worldwide process identified by him as a ‘global upsurge of memory’. These involve the critique of the official versions of history and the return to what was hidden away; the search for an obfuscated or ‘confiscated’ past; the cult of ‘roots’ and the development of genealogical investigations; the boom in fervent celebrations and commemorations; legal settlement of past ‘scores’ between different social groups; the growing number of all kinds of museums; the