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- From: DGPAZ@CLEMSON.BITNET
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
- Subject: Re: Bologna AHC conference
- Message-ID: <HISTORY%92090610442341@RUTVM1.BITNET>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 14:43:00 GMT
- Sender: History <HISTORY@RUTVM1.BITNET>
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- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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- On Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:05:12 METDST George Welling <welling@LET.RUG.NL>
- said:
-
- > The whole conference had a few "buzz-words": multi-media, OCR, connections
- > with Eastern Europe.
- > I have no serious objections to contacts with and aid for the eastern-
- > european countries in this sphere. I just wonder if it would not
- > be apropriate that some people who were willing to rewrite history for
- > the old regime should openly discuss why they did it and if they still
- > hold the same views.
-
- This smacks of ideological inquisitions and purges.
- An exchange in the most recent _Journal of American History_
- focused on a reviewer who criticized an historical figure
- for having given legal advice to members of the CPUSA
- during the McCarthy Purges of the early 1950s.
- Now we should prejudge people for "rewriting" history
- -- while some historians in the liberal capitalist
- West are doing their own rewriting?
- I am not keen on the imposition of "political
- correctness"; nor do I believe that we should demand
- of scholars that they should change their interpretations
- because the correct line has changed.
-
- Denis Paz
- dgpaz@clemson.bitnet
-