Historical revisionism, Neo-Ustashism, Neo-Chetnichism, and the monopolization of the right side in Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Authors: Ivo Goldstein
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article analyzes the genesis and development of historical revisionism in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the break-up of socialist Yugoslavia at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s until present. It explains how and why historical revisionism arose in Bosnia and Herzegovina and how it functions today. This phenomenon has taken a form of three nationalist discourses: Serbian (Neo-Chetnichism), Croatian (Neo-Ustashism) and Bosniak. The newly established cultures of memory served as generators of hatred before, during and after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992–1995. The three ethno- national variations of historical revisionism are largely mutually exclusive but share common strategies and serve a similar goal, which can be summed up as the “monopolization of the right side“.

Keywords

EN

Bosnia and Herzegovina; former Yugoslavia; historiography; historical revisionism; Neo-Ustashism; Neo-Chetnichism; cultures of memory; nationalism

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 110
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 361-371
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ivo Goldstein

• Slovanský přehled, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic