Explore our collection of articles! The compilation has been created for all those wishing to learn more about the complex issues underpinning 20th-century European history and memory. It consists of both academic and popular pieces, all written and/or edited by experts in their field. The articles cover a wide range of topics, from historical summaries and social history to contemporary commemoration practices.

Debate: The Memory of Economic Crisis
ENRS

Debate: The Memory of Economic Crisis

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18 August 2015
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  • crisis
  • Padraic Kenney
  • Wojciech Roszkowski
  • Matěj Spurný
  • Tamás Pesuth
  • Iga Kozlowska
Anomie and the public transportation of Budapest. The effects of hyperinflation, 1945–1946
Zsuzsa Frisnyák

Anomie and the public transportation of Budapest. The effects of hyperinflation, 1945–1946

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17 August 2015
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  • academic
  • Hungary
  • crisis
  • hyperinflation
  • public transport
Fashion 89 or the beginnings of recycling
Katarzyna Szczerbowska

Fashion '89 or the beginnings of recycling

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21 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • Fashion
Evangelical churches and the Peaceful Revolution of 1989
Dagmara Dudek

Evangelical churches and the Peaceful Revolution of 1989

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21 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • GDR
“We Have Something to Celebrate!”: Forging a Community of Memory for the “Velvet Revolution”
Deanna Wooley

“We Have Something to Celebrate!”: Forging a Community of Memory for the “Velvet Revolution”

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21 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • freedom express
  • Czech Republic
  • Czechia
  • remembrance
  • Velvet Revolution
“Neither for King nor Empire”: Irish Remembrance of the Great War in the 1920s
Mandy Townsley

“Neither for King nor Empire”: Irish Remembrance of the Great War in the 1920s

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21 August 2014
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  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Ireland
Warsaw’s Forgotten War
Robert Blobaum

Warsaw’s Forgotten War

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21 August 2014
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  • Poland
  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Warsaw
  • remembrance
  • Piłsudski
  • Dmowski
Warriors and Victims: Commemorating War on the Stadtfriedhof Tübingen – A Local-National Perspective
Benedict von Bremen

Warriors and Victims: Commemorating War on the Stadtfriedhof Tübingen – A Local-National Perspective

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21 August 2014
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  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Germany
  • memorials
  • cementeries
  • memorial sites
  • Nazis
  • Nazi
Turning Points in the History of War: Criteria for the Meaning of Violence in the Great War of 1914–1918
Christian Wevelsiep

Turning Points in the History of War: Criteria for the Meaning of Violence in the Great War of 1914–1918

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20 August 2014
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  • War
  • Great War
  • First World War
  • ideology
  • historiography
The Year 1989 – A European Repository of Memory
Burkhard Olschowsky

The Year 1989 – A European Repository of Memory

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20 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • Solidarity
  • European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
  • Memory
  • Europe
  • XX century
  • History
The Two Sides of Regime Change – the Hungarian Experience
Bálint Ablonczy

The Two Sides of Regime Change – the Hungarian Experience

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20 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • transformation
  • communism
  • Hungary
  • End of Communism
The Polish Pro-Independence Diaspora in the West in the Face of the Political Breakthrough of 1989
Paweł Gotowiecki

The Polish Pro-Independence Diaspora in the West in the Face of the Political Breakthrough of 1989

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20 August 2014
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  • kultúra
  • 1989
  • Poland
  • Lech Wałęsa
  • Ryszard Kaczorowski
  • independence émigrés
The Opposition Movement in Slovakia in the Period of Normalisation
Beata Katrebova-Blehova

The Opposition Movement in Slovakia in the Period of Normalisation

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20 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • Slovakia
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Bratislava/nahlas
  • Charter 77
The Murder of Armenians – Armenocide – Genocide – Genocide Prevention [...]
Richard Albrecht

The Murder of Armenians – Armenocide – Genocide – Genocide Prevention [...]

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20 August 2014
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  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • genocide
  • armenians
  • armenocide
  • Ottoman empire
The Military Cemetery as a Form of the Cult of the Fallen Soldier [...]
Jerzy Pałosz

The Military Cemetery as a Form of the Cult of the Fallen Soldier [...]

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20 August 2014
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  • Poland
  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • cementaries
  • Austria-Hungary
The Great War and Its Consequences from a Swedish Perspective
Paweł Jaworski

The Great War and Its Consequences from a Swedish Perspective

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20 August 2014
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  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Sweden
The Consequence of the System Transformation of 1989 in Poland
Antoni Dudek

The Consequence of the System Transformation of 1989 in Poland

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20 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • transformation
  • Poland
  • National Round Table
  • fall of communism
The Christmas Truce of 1914 – Remembered in 2005. The staging of European similarities in the movie Merry Christmas – Joyeux Noël
Maja Bächler

The Christmas Truce of 1914 – Remembered in 2005. The staging of European similarities in the movie Merry Christmas – Joyeux Noël

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20 August 2014
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  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Christmas Truce
  • 1914
  • film
  • Christian Carion
  • remembrance