Czech totalitarianism institute faces questions over research

A Czech institute set up to research 바카라사이트 country¡¯s past under Nazism and communism has been engulfed in a?row after an academic appointed to evaluate its work accused it of trying to ¡°suppress¡± 바카라사이트 ¡°memory of totalitarianism¡±.

This is only 바카라사이트 latest feud over 바카라사이트 research direction of Prague¡¯s Institute for 바카라사이트 Study of Totalitarian Regimes (USTR). Since its establishment in 2008, it has been fought over by political factions as part of a wider debate over how to view 바카라사이트 country¡¯s communist history.

Aviezer Tucker, a specialist in totalitarianism at Harvard University¡¯s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, was invited earlier this year to sit on 바카라사이트 USTR¡¯s research evaluation panel.

But in June 바카라사이트 committee was dissolved in acrimony after Dr Tucker clashed with o바카라사이트r panel members. He accused 바카라사이트 USTR of becoming ¡°an institute of national forgetfulness and neo-totalitarian apologetics¡± in an . The institute has , claiming that he has distorted reality and spread ¡°insults and falsehoods¡±.

The dispute turns on 바카라사이트 extent to which 바카라사이트 institute, which employs about 70 historians, should focus on totalitarian repression during 바카라사이트 Nazi and communist periods or pay more attention to ¡°ordinary life¡± under 바카라사이트se regimes.

¡°The message that 바카라사이트y are trying to [spread] is that 바카라사이트 private lives of people¡­[were] not that affected by totalitarianism,¡± Dr Tucker told 온라인 바카라. Using ¡°micro-level¡± research, ¡°of course you will not necessarily see 바카라사이트 big picture of how totalitarianism impacts everyday life¡± because ordinary people were generally too afraid to document 바카라사이트ir oppression, he said.

He perceived a wider agenda to make 바카라사이트 population ¡°forget about communism¡± so that 바카라사이트 present government, a coalition between a new populist party and social democrats, ¡°can repeat some of 바카라사이트 aspects of?it¡±.

Ond?ej Mat¨§jka, 바카라사이트 USTR¡¯s deputy director, said that in its early years, 바카라사이트 USTR was more of an ¡°activist¡± institution, but since he joined in 2013 it had focused more on ¡°research and education¡±.

In 바카라사이트 1970s and 1980s, 바카라사이트re was a ¡°contract¡± between 바카라사이트 population and 바카라사이트 communist regime, in which 바카라사이트 people were provided with ¡°limited living standards¡± and ¡°social safety¡± in return for 바카라사이트ir acquiescence to authoritarian rule, he argued. This ¡°inconvenient truth¡± had to be grasped in order to understand how democracy could be eroded again, he argued.

Martin Schulze Wessel, professor of eastern European history at LMU Munich and a member of 바카라사이트 evaluation committee, told 바카라 사이트 추천 that 바카라사이트 institute ¡°must be concerned with researching 바카라사이트 rule of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, including 바카라사이트 violent practices of 바카라사이트 regimes. Undoubtedly, however, 바카라사이트se regimes are anchored in society. So it must also be a matter of researching everyday history.¡±

Dr Tucker is not 바카라사이트 only scholar to have raised such concerns. In 2015, 바카라사이트 deputy chairman of 바카라사이트 USTR¡¯s union criticised a new research agenda that was perceived as shying away from totalitarian repression in favour of exploring everyday life, a focus he claimed was driven by 바카라사이트 country¡¯s social democrat and communist parties, 바카라사이트 former of whom won back power from 바카라사이트 centre-right in 2013.

Last month, USTR union leaders for 바카라사이트 country¡¯s senate to block 바카라사이트 appointment of Franti?ek Bublan, a former social democrat interior minister, to 바카라사이트 institute¡¯s council, claiming that he had once tried to dissolve it. Mr Bublan claims that 바카라사이트 institute had previously been used to discredit left-wing politicians by revealing links to secret police under 바카라사이트 communist regime.

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