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.

Mourning Aachen’s War Dead: Cultures of Memory during the First World Warm and the Postwar Period
Jens Lohmeier, Stephanie Kaiser

Mourning Aachen’s War Dead: Cultures of Memory during the First World Warm and the Postwar Period

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20 August 2014
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  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Aachen
  • obituaries
  • cementaries
Memory in the Digital Age: First World War and Its Representation on the Web
Aleksandra Pawliczek

Memory in the Digital Age: First World War and Its Representation on the Web

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20 August 2014
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  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • digitalization
  • digital resources
From the East German Holiday in Hungary and the Paneuropean Picnic to the German Re-Unification
Constantin Schmidt

From the East German Holiday in Hungary and the Paneuropean Picnic to the German Re-Unification

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19 August 2014
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  • Hungary
  • 20th century history
  • German Reunification
  • East Germany
  • GDR
  • End of Communism
From the Autumn of Nations to the Assault on Nations: Eastern Europe between Empire and Fascism
Alexander J. Motyl

From the Autumn of Nations to the Assault on Nations: Eastern Europe between Empire and Fascism

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19 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • freedom express
  • Ukraine
  • Russia
  • Autumn of Nations
  • Crimea
From Dissidence to Neoliberalism? Reflections on the Human Rights Legacy of 1989
Robert Brier

From Dissidence to Neoliberalism? Reflections on the Human Rights Legacy of 1989

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19 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • communism
  • dissidents
  • human rights
European Intellectuals at the Intersection of War, Memory and Social Responsibility [...]
Mark W. Clark

European Intellectuals at the Intersection of War, Memory and Social Responsibility [...]

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18 August 2014
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  • academic
  • World War II
  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Germany
  • Second World War
  • Gaetano Salvemini
  • Thomas Mann
  • fascism
  • Italy
Conference Report: European Remembrance. Europe between War and Peace 1914-2014
Dominik Pick

Conference Report: European Remembrance. Europe between War and Peace 1914-2014

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18 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • communism
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • 20th century history
  • European Remembrance Symposium
  • conference report
  • Second World War
Conference report: European Remembrance 2nd Symposium
Dominik Pick

Conference report: European Remembrance 2nd Symposium

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17 August 2014
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  • academic
  • 20th century history
  • European Remembrance Symposium
  • memory studies
  • conference report
Burdened by Imperial Memory: Rudyard Kipling, Collective Memory and the Imperial War Graves Commission
Chelsea Medlock

Burdened by Imperial Memory: Rudyard Kipling, Collective Memory and the Imperial War Graves Commission

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17 August 2014
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  • academic
  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • cemeteries
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • War Graves Commission
  • Great Britain
The Autumn of Nations – 25 Years After: Leonidas Donskis
Leonidas Donskis

The Autumn of Nations – 25 Years After: Leonidas Donskis

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17 August 2014
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  • academic
  • 1989
  • transformation
  • freedom express
  • Central Europe
  • Eastern Europe
25 years of freedom, that is a journey from a periphery to a periphery
Adam Leszczyński

25 years of freedom, that is a journey from a periphery to a periphery

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15 August 2014
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  • 1989
  • transformation
  • periphery
  • peripheries
  • Poland
  • End of Communism
  • end of the 20th century
1989 – 25 years later. Cathérine Hug interviews Robert Menasse
Cathérine Hug

1989 – 25 years later. Cathérine Hug interviews Robert Menasse

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15 August 2014
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  • academic
  • iron curtain
  • transformation
  • freedom express
  • Memory
  • European history
Was the War Inevitable?
Andrzej Chwalba

Was the War Inevitable?

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01 August 2014
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  • Treaty of Vienna
  • Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
Revolution by Song: Choral Singing and Political Change in Estonia
Joseph M. Ellis, Keeley Wood

Revolution by Song: Choral Singing and Political Change in Estonia

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01 August 2014
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  • Estonia
  • choral singing
  • song festivals
  • chorus
Could communism have collapsed without Wałęsas Nobel Peace Prize?

Could communism have collapsed without Wałęsa's Nobel Peace Prize?

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09 October 2013
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  • communism
  • Lech Wałęsa
  • fall of communism
Volhynian massacre

Volhynian massacre

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21 August 2013
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  • European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
  • Second World War
  • remembrance
  • Volhynian massacre
We or They
Lavinia Stan, Andrzej Stankiewicz

We or They

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21 August 2013
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  • totalitarian regimes
  • communism
  • transitional justice
  • remembrance
Victimisers, victims and the whole world
Andrzej Stankiewicz

Victimisers, victims and the whole world

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20 August 2013
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  • totalitarian regimes
  • transitional justice
  • European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
  • genealogies of memory
  • Latin America