The Politics of Memory: The Czechification of an International Spa Town after 1945

Czechoslovakia’s political elites attempted to shape national memory after the Second World War by creating a popular narrative linking an “acceptable” past with the reconstructed state.  Naming and commemorating helped establish a Czech national-historical version of the events of the interwar era and the war as they revised  the character of private and public spaces …

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