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Молчание и умолчание в истории
If we know familiar history only as a part of history, why do we not know the other part of history, and how can supplementing this information reshape our understanding of the past? This key question has become the starting point for the authors of this collective monograph to refl ect on the different types of silence and silencing in history, ranging from the silence of individual populations and even entire nations to deliberate silencing that distorts and conceals the facts of the past. Silence and silencing are explored in the book as the result of a unique process of constructing the past not only in academic histories, but also in sources, archives, and - more broadly - in the way societies remember the past, tell stories, and establish historical signifi cance. The diverse aspects of this topic are presented in the book at different levels of historical analysis, from philosophical and theoretical refl ections to specifi c source analysis and the study of silence and silencing in practices of public communication. The book is intended for historians, culturologists and all those interested in contemporary history and historiography.