The War Within
Alexis Peri The War Within. Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press, 2017). In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles...
Les images soviétiques
Les images soviétiques: une nouvelle source pour l’histoire de la Shoah 9 octobre 2015 – Mémorial de la Shoah 17, rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004, Paris. L’équipe Cinésov organise une journée d’étude “Les images soviétiques: une nouvelle source pour l’histoire de la Shoah”. Cette rencontre réunira autour de l’exposition organisée au Mémorial de la Shoah « Filmer la guerre : les Soviétiques face à...
Political Justice in Budapest after WWII
Ildikó Barna and Andrea Pető Political Justice in Budapest after WWII In Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of WWII, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities were tried by so called people’s courts. This book analyses this process in an objective, quantitative way, contributing to the present timely discussion on the Hungarian war guilt. The authors apply a special focus on the gender aspect of the...
CfP: GREAT POWER POLITICS TOWARDS MIDDLE EUROPE, 1914–1945
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A CASE STUDIES COLLECTION “GREAT POWER POLITICS TOWARDS MIDDLE EUROPE, 1914–1945” ABSTRACT : 300 words Deadline : 15 February 2015 PAPERS : 4000–7000 words Deadline: 15 May 2015 Contact: 1914mideu1945@gmail.com (Aliaksandr Piahanau and Andras Becker) In the first half of the 20th century, Middle -or Central – Europe, repeatedly set the stage for great power rivalry and conflict, as well as political, economic...
History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited By Georges Mink and Laure Neumayer History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Memory Games Twenty years after the end of communism, history still sparks intense discussions in the former Soviet bloc, as contested memories, primarily about communism and WWII, are constantly reactivated. Much of what is currently known about memory issues in post-communist countries is limited to state-centered approaches. This...
