CUIUS REGIO, EIUS HISTORIA - MACEDONIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY NARRATIVES, 1944-201 (Cuius Regio, Eius Historia - Macedonska historiografia i narracje tozsamosciowe w latach 1944-2011)

Macedonian historians, by calling upon certain past events perceived as traumatic and mobilizing deep-rooted stereotypes and prejudices against the neighboring countries, sought to manipulate the public opinion. It seems that also today many representatives of the Macedonian elite still see the fight for position in the historical culture as a primary aim of their existence in the public sphere. They linked the current political and social situation to the so-called historical traditions and saw Macedonian national identity threatened by Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Serbian nationalists. Past and current events are explained in such a way that they became part of a mythological narrations.