INTERPRETATION OF THE ETHNOGENESIS IN THE WORKS OF THE MACEDONIAN MEDIEVALISTS IN THE 70S AND 80S OF THE LAST CENTURY

Abstract

The subject of this research are the ideas of the ethnogenesis of the Macedonian people presented in Macedonian historiography during communistic period. The evolution of basic ideas and arguments has been explored in the context of the challenges of the time: ideological aggression by neighboring nationalisms and historiographies, the denial of the existence of the Macedonian nation, the need to defend the right of existing as the separate nation and finally, the aspiration through manipulation of the myth of origin Macedonian national state to be put in function and service of one or another Balkan state and national policy. This paper focused on the developments in the 70s and 80s of the last century represents the third segment of a wider analysis on this issue.