In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Martin Schulze Wessel – author of the new book Der Fluch des Imperiums. Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrweg in der Russischen Geschichte (Imperial Curse. Ukraine, Poland, and the False Paths in…
Speaking about traumatic memory generally presupposes speaking about narrative creation. Articulation and re-telling are often perceived as weaving the canvases back after rupture, as filling the empty spaces left by the trauma. But are these the only effective ways to…
In times of crisis, solidarity and collaborative action play a vital role in supporting people, institutions, and practices in the academic space as well as in any other. With the war in Ukraine entering its 10th month, we are finishing…
Joep Leerssen is an Emeritus Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam and a part-time appointed research professor at the Sociaal Historisch Centrum Limburg / Maastricht University. He is an author and editor of eleven books and…
“They bombed our apartment,” Sasha told me nonchalantly in Kyiv last May. Fortunately, no one was hurt. She and her husband Dimitri were busy in a friend’s kitchen preparing Molotov cocktails to hurl at Russian tanks, a popular pastime in…
Andriy Portnov is a professor of Ukrainian history at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt am Oder, director of the Prisma Ukraïna research network focusing on the Eastern Europe, author and co-editor of nine books and over two hundred scientific…
I must have already been a teenager when I learnt that my great-grandmother used to switch to German whenever she wanted some privacy from her children or grandchildren. Older women used to do their gossiping in German in the Swabian…