Politics Of History

The Great Substitution

Momentous ‘eights’ in Czecho-Slovak history

Why Churchill still matters

The power of the past and the postponement of the future

Stalin’s continuing, disputed legacy

Surveying Russia’s geography of difficult pasts

1968 in Germany: A generation with two phases and faces

Projecting Poland and its past

Agent Sabina: On the abjection of Julia Kristeva

The right to truth denied

Righteous indignation: On the Polish Holocaust law debate

Trees that must remember

Playing to the audience: The televised suicide of Slobodan Praljak

In defence of Europe’s memory laws

The revival of ideology in Russia

Between politics and truth

Maggification - a personal reading

The historiography of Margaret Thatcher's theatre of politics

Breaking the bonds of national mythology

Memory and European citizenship