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From Heroisation to Competing Victimhoods. History Writing on the Second World War in Moldova

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  • Suveica Svetlana

    (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Landshuter Straße 4, 93047Regensburg, Germany)

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The author outlines the way identity perspectives determine the understanding of World War Two in Moldovan society, and the role of historians in this conception. She discusses how historians have adjusted their writing to fit a certain political discourse and have influenced how and what should people ‘remember’. Further questions at stake touch on the standing of Moldovan history writing in comparison with World War Two research published outside the country; the new tendencies in history writing; and whether these emerging currents might lead in the near future to the transcendence of the politicised approaches that are currently dominant.

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  • Suveica Svetlana, 2017. "From Heroisation to Competing Victimhoods. History Writing on the Second World War in Moldova," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 65(2), pages 388-411, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:65:y:2017:i:2:p:388-411:n:9
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0023
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