Title in original language: Pamäť SNP v rodine vidieckej inteligencie a postsocialistická stredná trieda
Author: Juraj Buzalka
Title in English: Memory of the Slovak National Uprising in rural intellectual families and the post-socialist middle class
Journal: Česko-slovenská historická ročenka, 27, 2, 2025, pp. 89-111
Abstract: The text deals with the influence of several parallel and mutually exclusive interpretations of the past in the whirlwind of regimes and memory politics, as well as the continuity of values in family memory. Memory of the SNP does not fill in the gaps in the true story of the family of an Evangelical pastor, as this is impossible without additional data from a distance of eighty years. The text is rather about how fundamental historical events are remembered in society and at home from the perspective of the year 2025 and what role rural intelligentsia plays in the memory of democracy.
Keywords: memory of the Slovak National Uprising, intellectuals, politics of memory, post-socialist transformation