Summary
Kosta Nikolić: The History of the Ravnogorsk Movement 1941 - 1945. II
Perhaps every presentation of not only this historical work is best started with a quote, as, after all, the author of this two-volume monograph, the postmodernist Dutch philosopher Frank Ankersmit, for whom history is not a reconstruction of what happened to us in various phases of life, "but a constant playing with the memory of it". By the way, this is the second edition of Kosta Nikolić's famous work after a decade and a half since the publication of the first edition, which admittedly had three volumes. Time brought the necessary reductions and determined changes, and in those previous fifteen years, the picture of the events of the Second World War in Serbian society became much more balanced. The need to, after five decades of communist stigmatization of the Chetnik movement, in the early 1990s bring a real flood of various texts and memories, which until then could only be published in the Serbian émigré press. Surviving members of the so-called members of the Chetnik movement meanwhile experienced legislative satisfaction through state recognition that they were members of the anti-fascist movement.
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