Politics of history

The politics of history is the effects of political influence on the representation or study of historical topics, commonly associated with the totalitarian state which use propaganda and other means to impose a specific version of history with the goal of eliminating competing perspectives about the past.[1] Nevertheless, the term is contested and there is no common agreement on its meaning which is often a matter of contextual use.[2][3]

See also

• Censorship
• Damnatio memoriae
• Historical negationism
• Memory law
• Political history
• The Use and Abuse of History, Or, How the Past is Taught

References

1. Rafał Stobiecki (2008). "Historians Facing Politics of History: The Case of Poland". In Michael Kopeček (ed.). Past in the Making: Historical Revisionism in Central Europe After 1989. Central European University Press. pp. 179–192. commonly associated with the totalitarian state, where the authorities use mass propaganda and various forms of repression and pressure to try to impose their own version of history on society, with the aim of eliminating any competitive discourse about the past
2. Michael Goebel (2011). "Introduction". Argentina's Partisan Past Nationalism and the Politics of History. Liverpool University Press. p. 1.
3. Erkki Tuomioja (2017-07-25). "History and conflict: How can historians contribute to conflict resolution and conflict prevention". historianswithoutborders.fi. Retrieved October 25, 2020.

Further reading

• The Politics of History in Comparative Perspective, special edition of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
• Zinn, Howard (1990). The Politics of History: With a New Introduction. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06122-6.