Directions of the Recent Historiography of Skopje

Abstract

If each generation has a duty to rewrite history, as per Karl Popper’s famous saying, then the post-communist generation of historians from the former communist Balkan countries has several reasons to re-evaluate the historical past. The commanded and ideologically charged historiography of the Balkan communist countries had as its interpretative starting point the “principle of the class-struggle”, which was the driving force in historical materialism, and saw socialist society more as a result of internal social struggles than as a product of the Cold War and the imposition of the Soviet model.