Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva: "In my opinion, Russian historians did not play any active role in forming an imperial paradigm"

During our conversation with the Russian historian Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, we discussed the following questions: Did Russian historians take part in forming the ideologemes of the Putin regime? What position did they adopt after 24 February...

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Oleksandr Melnyk: "Whereas the Soviet metanarrative talked about the contribution of various peoples to the victory over Nazism, the contemporary Russian state is trying to privatize it."

The conversation with the Ukrainian-Canadian historian Oleksandr Melnyk is about his recently published monograph, World War II As an Identity Project. He finished inputting corrections to it in the Kherson oblast, occupied by Russian troops...

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Serhii Plokhy: "Not since the period of the Second World War has any war been so clear-cut not only for Ukrainians but also for the world on the whole"

The following interview with the historian Serhii Plokhy focuses on his latest book, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, in which he reflects on the causes of the current war, its possible consequences for...

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Marina Mogilner: "I had always thought that the Ukrainian intellectual milieu was different from the intellectual milieu in Russia precisely because there were various voices in the Ukrainian one, and genuine, interesting dialogue was taking place there."

Our conversation with Marina Mogilner, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, focuses on the ongoing decolonizing discussions in academia in the United States and Western Europe. Some historians are...

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