The Baltic States in the Years of the Great Patriotic War as Interpreted by Modern Baltic Historiography by Kirill Aleksandrovich Zverev

“…The author concludes that the reasons for the dominance of these interpretations lie in the anti-Soviet orientation of local political elites, as well as in the dominance of this trend (for political reasons) in the local politics of memory over the past three decades since independence. …”
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Commemorating a ‘Foreign’ War in a Neutral Country The Political Insignificance of World War 1 Memory in the Netherlands by Kees Ribbens

“…While familiarity with </span><span>wwi </span><span>has grown among the Dutch media and the wider public, governmental interest remained limited (very different from the case of </span><span>wwii</span><span>), making it rather difficult to actually speak of </span><span>politics of memory</span><span>. </span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>This article is part of the <a href="/585/volume/131/issue/3/">forum</a> 'Commemorating War 100 years after the First World War'.…”
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The Discourse of the State Memory Politics as a Factor in the Formation of the National Identity of Modern Russia by Rusakova, O.F.

“…While analyzing the works of Russian political scientists on the ways of interrelation of identity politics with memory politics, it was concluded that for most researchers, the state memory politicsisjust a contextual element of a more extensive concept, which is the discourse of national identity. …”
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Intertwined Memories of Kryvyi Rih: The Ato, the Second World War, and the Cossacks by Denys Shatalov

“… In the last decade, the politics of memory in Ukraine, implemented after the Revolution of Dignity and the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Donbas in 2014, has been the subject of intense scholarly attention. …”
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Split Memory: World War I Memorialisation Practices in the Weimar Republic by Nikolay Nikolaevich Baranov

“…The problem of historical memory and the politics of memory, the formation and evolution of memorial culture has become relevant in the context of the “mnemonic turn” in historiography, which began in the 1980s and continues until now. …”
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Nowy bard. Twórczość i działania Tomáša Hnídka w dyskursie czeskiej skrajnej prawicy by Tatiana Witkowska

“…It also draws attention to persuasive techniques of creating an image and to their influence on the reception of the singer-songwriter genre in the context of hate speech and struggle over a new politics of memory in the Czech Republic, pursued by extreme right-wing politicians and their followers.   …”
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Anti-crisis resource of memory policy in Ukraine by Yury Shapoval

“…The proposed article considers the politics of memory as a tool for overcoming crises in contemporary Ukrainian society. …”
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On The Issue of the Concept of “Regime of Memory Politics”: Methodological Analysis by Rusakova, O.F.

“…An important methodological role in the process of historical concretization of the presented approaches was played by the research guidelines contained in the collective monograph "The official discourse of the Russian politics of memory on the Soviet past: Interpretation strategies, actors, commemorative practices" (Ekaterinburg, 2022). …”
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The 550th anniversary of the foundation of Kazakhstan’s statehood in 2015 an assessment from a neutral Central European country by Martin Malek

“… A crucial aspect of the «politics of history» and «politics of memory» of all post-Soviet republics is the relationship to statehood. …”
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Features of the formation and implementation of the memory politics of the Great Patriotic War in the post-Soviet space by Kovba D.M., Gribovod E.G.

“…The aim of the work is to identify the design features of national strategies for the politics of memory of the war in these countries. To solve this goal, methods of comparative and system analysis are used. …”
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Rediscovering Identity: Autobiographical Memory and Media Discourses of Russian-Germans in Germany and Russia by Andrei A. Linchenko, Bella V. Gartwig

“…In Germany and Russia, the boundaries of this identification are the politics of memory of the host society and the dominant narratives regarding this group as repatriates (Germany) and as a diaspora with its own culture (Russia). …”
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A Romanian Political Story: The Nationalism of Nicolae Iorga Revisited (1899-1914) by Georgiana ŢĂRANU

“…In the second part of the paper, I move from a short survey of the politics of memory by the main political regimes following Iorga’s assassination, namely the military dictatorship of Ion Antonescu and the communist regime, to a discussion of some strategies used in the post-1989 era to condone or obfuscate some beliefs and actions of Iorga by interpreting his nationalism as a cultural one.…”
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Historiografía y políticas de memoria en la Argentina (1977-2013) by Mariela Coudannes Aguirre

“…</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Keywords: Recent History, memories, politics of memory</div>…”
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Media Support and Coverage of the Special Military Operation on the Territory of Ukraine by the Russian Political Parties by Goloskokov, V.A.

“…The “new” parties are actively addressing the framing technology, whilst the “old” ones more often use the priming technology, develop the discourse of the politics of memory, and inscribe the special operation into the collective historical memory of Russia. …”
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A ware Afrikaner by Swart, S, Swart, Sandra Scott

“…Finally, the myth-making of the Afrikaner, particularly the creation of a <em>volksheld</em>, is considered, to examine the interplay of ethnicity, politics and memory.</p>…”

The “memory wars” in divided societies: the case of Spain by I. L. Prokhorenko

“…The alternative politics of memory, which are declared and carried out by different competing actors of political process at the country level, first of all being government and opposition parties, are analyzed in the article. …”
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BORDERLANDS ON THE EDGE OF LOSS: RUSSIAN POLICY, UKRAINE, BELARUS IN THE CONTEXT OF POST-IMPERIAL RELATIONS by V. V. Shishkov, S. V. Horoshev

“…Of signifi cance were the studies on the politics of memory to solve the problems posed in the article.The paper raises and considers the question to what extent the relations between Russia and the former Soviet states as post-imperial in the general context of the collapse of empires are reasonable characterized. …”
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1918 and the Habsburg Monarchy as Reflected in Slovak Historiography by Júlia Čížová, Roman Holec

“…With regard to the “long” nineteenth-century history of the Habsburg monarchy, the new generation of post-1989 historians have strengthened research into social history, the history of previously unstudied social classes, the church, nobility, bourgeoisie, and environmental history, as well as the politics of memory. The Czechoslovak centenary increased historians’ interest in the year 1918 and the constitutional changes in the Central European region. …”
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Historia de la sangre de Alfredo Castro: entre lo real y lo perverso by Damián Noguera

“…In sum, I suggest that Castro’s work allegorizes the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of memory and oblivion of Chilean Post dictatorial Era.…”
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Book Reviews | Reseñas by Book Review Editor, Barbara Hogenboom

“…The Politics of Waiting in Argentina, by Javier Auyero; reviewed by Constantin Groll, p. 122Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes, by Emma Cervone; reviewed by Marc Simon Thomas, p. 124Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory, by Carrie Hamilton; reviewed by Javier Corrales, p. 125Shaping the Immigration Debate: Contending Civil Societies on the US-Mexico Border, by Cari Lee Skogberg Eastman; reviewed by Susan Berger, p. 128The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931, by William J. …”
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