Understanding the Post-Socialist Experience Across Generations

• Authors: Dušan Deák
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses transmission of the historical memories of the comparatively recent past across generations in Slovakia. It introduces the Slovak debate on the recent and difficult pasts, explains the basic theoretical stances, moves on to introduce the regions of the research and the methodology used and finally gives voice to young and older respondents whose information is commented and analyzed. The paper hopes to provide insights into the processes of memory transmission and past construction. As well, by using numerous quotes from the informants, it hopes to illustrate and substantiate the claim about the defects of the debates among the people of current post-socialist era in Slovakia.

Keywords

EN

past; intergenerational transmission; historical memory; Slovakia; regime

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ethnologia Actualis
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 8-39

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-11-26

Contributors

author

Dušan Deák

• Department of Comparative Religion, Comenius University in Bratislava

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eas-2015-0007