Mnemonic Governance. Politics of History, Transitional Justice and the Law

0580268 - ÚSD 2024 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Hudek, Petra
The Legislative Framework for the Protection of Communist-era Monuments after 1989 in Czechoslovakia.
Mnemonic Governance. Politics of History, Transitional Justice and the Law. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2023 - (Kaim, M.; Horonziak, S.), s. 131-146. Studiees in History, Memory and Politics, 48. ISBN 9783631889565
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : communism * monuments * statues
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

This chapter focuses on the legislative framework for the protection of monuments during the social and political transformation in Czechoslovakia after 1989. The first part examines the public space in Czechoslovakia immediately after the Velvet Revolution. While the second part of the paper analyses the removal of memorials from the perspective of Czechoslovak legal norms, the final asks whether memorials from the socialist period are perceived as a historical heritage in the framework of international law. The main objective of this article is to present the conflict in the legislative frameworks of the former political regime shortly after 1989 in Czechoslovakia and at the same time the paper analyses the process of removing pro-regime statues immediately after the Velvet Revolution.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349084