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    Memories at Peace? Reconciliation with and through the Past

Norbert Frei
    Past Overcome? The Third Reich in Contemporary German Consciousness

Stefan Troebst
    “What Sort of a Carpet?” The Culture of Memory in Post-Communist Societies of Eastern Europe. An Attempt at General Description and Categorization

Interview with Jan Gross
    Memory and History: “The Neighbors?”

Ronald Grigor Suny
    Dialogue on Genocide: Efforts by Armenian and Turkish Scholars to Understand the Deportations and Massacres of Armenians During World War I

History
Agnieszka Jagodzińska
    Between Two Worlds: Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw as a Text of Culture (1850-1900)

Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickie
    Our Common Culture: “The Learnt Memory” of Lithuanian Jerusalem

Anna Lipphardt
    Post-Holocaust Reconstruction of Vilno, “The Most Yiddish City in the World”, in New York, Israel, and Vilnius

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
    “The Dead Jews:” A Reflection On Useable Past

Sener Akturk
    Counter-Hegemonic Visions and Reconciliation Through the Past: The Case of Turkish Eurasianism

Pavel Varnavskii
    Soviet People: The Making of a Common Identity in the USSR as the Creation of Common Memory (the Case of Buriat ASSR)

Elza-Bair Guchinova
    The Nation and the Discourse of Guilt: Reconciliation With the Past in the Kalmyk Politics of Memory

Olga Brednikova
    Historical Text Ad Marginem, or the Divided Memory of Divided Towns?

Ene Kõresaar
    The Notion of Rupture in Estonian Narrative Memory: On the Construction of Meaning in Autobiographical Texts on the Stalinist Experience

Archive
Ilya Gerasimov
    “Remembering the Future.” Constitutional Project of Andrei Sakharov and the Problem of “System Memory:” Between “Convergence” and the “Zero Option”

Document
    Materials for A. D. Sakharov’s Constitutional Project: June-November, 1989

Forum AI
    Remembering A. D. Sakharov’s Constitutional Project 15 years Later - 1

Forum AI
    Remembering A. D. Sakharov’s Constitutional Project 15 years Later - 2

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Evgenii Anisimov
    From Pikul’ to “Round Table”

Melissa F. Gayan
    Gorbachev’s Reforms and the Beginning of a New History in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

Kathleen E. Smith
    Whither Anti-Stalinism?

Harley Balzer
    An Acceptable Past: Memory in the Russian Extrication from Communism

Alexander Kustarev
    Practices of Dealing with the Past in the Post-Perestroika Russia: Narrative and Invocation

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Alexander Filiushkin
    “One Land, Different Memories:” The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Historical Memories of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Russia

Interview with Hieronim Grala
    “Non-Empire:” The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish Historical Memory

Darius Vilimas
    The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Stereotypes of Historical Memory in Lithuania

Giedrė Mickūnaitė
    Empire as Nostalgia or à la recherche des terres perdues

Dmitrii Vyrskii
    The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as Historical Experience: The Case of Ukraine

Igor Marzaliuk
    The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Historical Memory of Byelorussians – Rusins: from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Alexander Filiushkin
    Looking into the Broken Mirror Splinters: The Russian Discourse on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Newest Mythologies
Serguei Oushakine
    Replacing Loss: Materialization of Memory and the Hermeneutics of Pain in Provincial Russia

Historiography
Stephen Velychenko
    Ukrainians Rethink Their Revolutions

Book Reviews
Lilia Berezhnaia
    A. Kappeler, Z. E. Kohut, F. E. Sysyn, and M. Von Hagen (Eds.), Culture, Nation, and Identity. The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945) (Edmonton, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2003). 381 pp. ISBN: 1-895571-47-2.

Emilian Kavalski
    Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000). xlix+438 pp. ISBN: 0-8179-9542-0.

Sergei Kiselev
    Д. Н. Замятин. Власть пространства и пространство власти: Географические образы в политике и международных отношениях. Москва: РОССПЭН, 2004. 352 с. (Сер.: “Политология России”). Библиогр. Рез. англ. ISBN: 5-8243-0300-2.

Ernest Gyidel
    Jan T. Gross, Revolution from Abroad. The Soviet Conquest of Poland’s Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Princeton; London: Princeton University Press, 2002). Expanded edition, with a new preface by the author. xxiv+396 pp. ISBN: 0-691-09603-1.

Aleksandr Lavrov
    Mykhailo Hrusevsky, Hystory of Ukraine-Rus’. From Prehistory to the Eleventh Century (Volume 1); The Cossack Age to 1625 (Volume 7); The Cossack Age, 1626-1650 (Volume 8). (Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1997-2002).

Anna Brzozowska
    Margarita M. Balmaceda, James I. Clem, and Lisbeth L. Tarlow (Eds.), Independent Belarus: Domestic Determinants, Regional Dynamics, and Implications for the West. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002). 483 pp. Appendix. Index. ISBN: 0

Maksim Kirchanov
    Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations. Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003). 367 pp. ISBN: 0-300-09569-4.

Wim van Meurs
    Проблемы национальной идентификации, культурные и политические связи России со странами Балтийского региона в XVIII-XX веках / Под ред. Р. Бютнер, В. Дубины, М. Леонова. Самара: “Парус”, 2001. 284 с. ISBN: 5-7967-0090-1.

Emmanuel Waegemans
    Д. Гузевич, И. Гузевич. Великое посольство. Санкт-Петербург: Феникс, 2003. 309 с. ISBN: 5-85042-073-8.

Nikita Khrapunov
    Yale Richmond, From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians (Yarmouth: Intercultural Press, 2003). Third Edition. 203 pp. ISBN: 1-877864-16-1.

Magdalena Żółkoś
    Padraic Kenney, A Carnival of Revolution. Central Europe, 1989 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002). 352 p. ISBN: 0-691-05028-7.

Katya Vladimirov
    A. O. Chubarian, F. Gori, I. Yu. Novichenko, V. V. Ishchenko (Eds.), European Experience and Teaching History in Post-Soviet Russia: Seminar Materials Promoting Regional Innovation in Programs and Methodology (Moscow: IVI RAN, 1999). ISBN: 5-201-00522-5.

Stephen Blank
    Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy (London: Pluto Press, 2002). vi+303pp. ISBN: 0-74531502-X.

Bruce Bean
    Lilia Shevtsova, Putin’s Russia (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003). 306 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-87003-202-X.

Svetlana Malysheva
    А. Б. Николаев. Государственная дума в Февральской революции / Пред. С. М. Ляндрес. Рязань, 2002. 302 с. (Сер. “Новейшая российская история: Исследования и документы”. Т. 2). ISBN: 5-944730-02-1.

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