This fascinating book analyzes the socialist past as represented in the national history
museums of the majority of the former Yugoslav states. While traveling to Croatia Bosnia and
Herzegovina Montenegro Kosovo and Macedonia the study elucidates the strategies of
constructing the national narratives that maintain and legitimize the particular vision of the
common past. The cross-national comparison allows to extract the main tendencies in visual
interpretation of the socialist past. The existence of the diverse opinions with the further
possibility of displaying them in the public space has tremendous importance for the democratic
development of the state and consequently the analysis of the exhibitions representing the
socialist past in multiparadigmatic ways is the promising tool for the identification of both
the memory politics in the region and the extent to which political actors are interfering in
the given field.
