Writing History under the «Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Yugoslav Historiography 1945–1991

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ID6119696
AuthorsMichael Antolović (0000-0003-1344-9133, University of Novi Sad, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume39
Pages49-73
Publication date2021-06-16
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de História das Ideias (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0870-0958 • E-ISSN: 2183-8925
PublisherCoimbra University Press (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.14195/2183-8925_39_2
OpenAlexW3175646041
LanguageEN
References cited6

This paper analyzes the development of the historiography in the former socialist Yugoslavia (1945–1991). Starting with the revolutionary changes after the Second World War and the establishment of the «dictatorship of the proletariat», the paper considers the ideological surveillance imposed on historiography entailing its reconceptualization on the Marxist grounds. Despite the existence of common Yugoslav institutions, Yugoslav historiography was constituted by six historiographies focusing their research programs on the history of their own nation, i.e. the republic. Therefore, many joint historiographical projects were either left unfinished or courted controversies between historians over a number of phenomena from the Yugoslav history. Yugoslav historiography emancipated from Marxist dogmatism, and modernized itself following various forms of social history due to a gradual weakening of ideological surveillance from the 1960s onwards. However, the modernization of Yugoslav historiography was carried out only partially because of the growing social and political crises which eventually led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia

Democracy · Dictatorship · Historiography · Ideology · Marxist historiography · Marxist philosophy · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Social science · Sociology · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Law

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