published in Claudia Lichnofsky, Enriketa Pandelejmoni, Darko Stojanov (Hg.): Myths and Mythical Spaces. Conditions and Challenges for History Textbooks in Albania and South-Eastern Europe, Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2017, pp. 195-223.
This chapter investigates the image of the Greece in history textbooks of Albania from the time of the communist regime (1945-1990). As this chapter will show, the legacy of the demonization of the enemy was taken up and intensified to the extreme by the communist regime, especially in the final stage of Albania's self-isolation in the second half of the 1970s. It should be noted, however, that the tendency to view the Other as a potential enemy is not an exclusive trait of communist regimes, as research on the image of Albanians in Greek or Macedonian school textbooks has shown.
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