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Every major socio-political change starts with some discarding. Suffice it to think about the heaps of rubbish consisting of old furniture, cars, busts of famous communist leaders, badges, and books on the streets of Eastern Europe in the fall/winter of 1989/1990. Among the institutions which have the greatest amount of experience with discarding are libraries: Counterintuitive as it may seem, libraries (but also museums and archives) regularly discard books as part of their job. In the wake of the collapse of communism in Europe, stock revision was needed in libraries, but did it unfold in a "business as usual" fashion or was it a bibliocide? (as it was labelled by some media in Croatia) or even the biggest destruction of books in the post-war period? (as it was characterized by a German journalist)? When does a standard library practice start attracting public attention? What makes the Croatian case stand out?

Dieses Buch untersucht wie die regierenden Parteien in Kroatien und der Slowakei während der 1990er Jahren die Geschichtsschreibung politisch nutzten, um mehr Macht zu gewinnen beziehungsweise diese zu erhalten. Die Geschichtspolitiken und nationalistischen Ideologien, die von der Kroatischen Demokratischen Union (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica - HDZ)und der Bewegung für die Demokratische Slowakei (hnutie za demokratické Slovensko - HZDS) entwickelt wurden, werden vor dem Hintergrund der historischen Vermächtnisse, politischen Kontexte und der Auflösungsprozesse der Tschechoslowakei und Jugoslawiens analysiert. Neben einer Reihe von Unterschieden zeigt der Vergleich erhebliche Ähnlichkeiten, die eine Erklärung für die Anwesenheit oder Abwesenheit eines demokratischen Defizits in jenen Ländern bereit hielten, die als Junior-Partner in den sozialistischen Bundesstaaten Jugoslawiens, der Tschechoslowakei und der Sowjetunion gegolten haben. ; This book examines how the ruling parties in Croatia and Slovakia in the 1990s made use of history in politics in order to gain and maintain power. The politics of history and nationalist ideologies developed by the Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica – HDZ) and the Movement for Democratic Slovakia (Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko – HZDS) are analysed against the backdrop of historical legacies, political contexts, and the dissolution processes of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, respectively. Apart from a number of differences, the comparison reveals considerable similarities that could be useful in explaining the presence or absence of a democratic deficit in countries that held the position of ˈjunior partnersˈ in the socialist federations of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union.

Every major socio-political change starts with some discarding. Suffice it to think about the heaps of rubbish consisting of old furniture, cars, busts of famous communist leaders, badges, and books on the streets of Eastern Europe in the fall/winter of 1989/1990. Among the institutions which have the greatest amount of experience with discarding are libraries: Counterintuitive as it may seem, libraries (but also museums and archives) regularly discard books as part of their job. In the wake of the collapse of communism in Europe, stock revision was needed in libraries, but did it unfold in a 'business as usual' fashion or was it a "bibliocide" (as it was labelled by some media in Croatia) or even "the biggest destruction of books in the post-war period" (as it was characterized by a German journalist)? When does a standard library practice start attracting public attention? What happened in Croatia that there is even a Wikipedia page about "bookicide" in the 1990s? This book approaches the issue on at least three levels (phenomenological, discursive, and theoretical) and from three angles (from the point of view of librarians, non-professionals, and, metaphorically, discarded books themselves). The aim is to offer an innovative and original interpretation of post-socialist transition and post-Yugoslav memory while at the same time providing an empirically founded case study of the inconsistencies and lack of implementation of regulations in the field of librarianship in Croatia as opposed to a seemingly more synchronized environment in Slovenia.