ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will try to give a short outline of the roles that historians played as agents of historical politics and the role of professional history writing in shaping and implementing it. 1 I will deal mostly with generalities on the nature of historians’ involvement in the politics of history. More concrete and detailed observations of their input in the development and implementation of historical politics will be provided in the next part of the book. The specific problems of the development of professional historiography are not discussed. 2
