CONFRONTING THE PAST: European Experiences

This edited volume is based on the conference proceedings presented and discussed at the international conference Confronting the Past, held on 23 April 2009 at the European House in Zagreb. This academic conference, organized jointly by the Political Science Research Centre and the Scientific Forum, gathered researchers from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), Portugal, Latvia, Belarus, Macedonia, Austria, and Italy. The conference focused on the various experiences and practices of European states and societies in dealing with troubled pasts and often authoritarian legacies in the course of the 20th century. The idea behind the conference was to portray diverse European perspectives on processes of confrontation with recent history. The papers presented at the conference included a multitude of views and opinions, some of which may be in conflict with each other or provoke controversies in the field of memory studies.