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Reformulating memory propaganda and commemoration as an integral part of the cultural history of the first world war

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Code Science Field Subfield
6.01.00  Humanities  Historiography   

Code Science Field
H250  Humanities  Contemporary history (since 1914) 
Keywords
Introducting curtural history, sistematic re-construction of the domestic (internal) front
Evaluation (rules)
source: COBISS
Researchers (3)
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  01008  PhD Oto Luthar  Historiography  Head  2004 - 2007  897 
2.  11698  PhD Petra Svoljšak  Humanities  Researcher  2004 - 2007  577 
3.  06397  PhD Jelica Šumič Riha  Philosophy  Researcher  2004 - 2007  373 
Organisations (1)
no. Code Research organisation City Registration number No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  0618  Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts  Ljubljana  5105498000  62,908 
Abstract
The First World War brought watershed changes to the existing commemorative practices, leading to the formation of collective memory. Similar to in the West, Northern Europe, the United States and Australia, the dead began to "return to among the living" in a new fashion. New conceptualisation of national communities were formed, and with them, along with new forms of memorialising their war victims. A romantic presentation of the fallen soldiers, who had previously lived mostly in the memory of their kin or narrow communities, was replaced by the figure of national heroes. The names chiselled into parish memorial plaques and the individuals lost in the sea of crosses in military cemeteries and faces in group photographs, which while becoming completely anonymous, also began to represent a new community with recognisable characteristics.
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