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.

Centenary of the Versailles Peace Treaty
Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk

Centenary of the Versailles Peace Treaty

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25 June 2019
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  • First World War
  • treaty of versailles
Kristallnacht
Jolinke Golbach

Kristallnacht

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13 November 2018
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  • Jews
  • interwar
  • Kristallnacht
  • 9 November
  • 1938
  • Antisemitism
Candle Manifestation of 1988
Peter Jašek

Candle Manifestation of 1988

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21 August 2018
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  • communism
  • 20th century history
  • End of Communism
  • Velvet Revolution
  • 1988
  • Candle Manifestation
  • Soviet Union
The Prague Spring
Cătălina Vrabie

The Prague Spring

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21 August 2018
Tags
  • communism
  • 1968
  • 20th century history
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Prague Spring
  • Eastern Bloc
  • Soviet Union
Visegrad Cooperation
Fruzsina Czeglédi

Visegrad Cooperation

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21 August 2018
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  • Lech Wałęsa
  • 1991
  • Visegrád Group
  • end of the 20th century
Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia
Jolinke Golbach

Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia

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15 April 2018
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  • Czechoslovakia
  • Czechoslovak Republic
  • Warsaw Pact
Remediating violence: Second World War memory on Wikipedia
Mykola Makhortykh

Remediating violence: Second World War memory on Wikipedia

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20 Feburary 2018
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  • Second World War
  • commemoration
  • violence
  • Wikipedia
  • Battle of Kyiv 1943
From the memory of violence to the violence of memory
Jeffrey K. Olick

From the memory of violence to the violence of memory

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18 Feburary 2018
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  • Memory
  • commemoration
  • violence
  • theoretical approach
Is there a specific Eastern European perspective on violence in the 20th century?
Andrzej Nowak

Is there a specific Eastern European perspective on violence in the 20th century?

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18 Feburary 2018
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  • Eastern Europe
  • Memory
  • 20th century history
  • violence
  • Western Europe
Violence in Western Europe in the 20th century
Arnold Suppan

Violence in Western Europe in the 20th century

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15 Feburary 2018
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  • First World War
  • Second World War
  • violence
  • Western Europe
  • warfare
Theoretical issues of violence: Defining violence and types of violence in the 20th century
Michel Wieviorka

Theoretical issues of violence: Defining violence and types of violence in the 20th century

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15 Feburary 2018
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  • 20th century history
  • violence
  • theoretical approach
Teaching the Armenian genocide: A comparative analysis of national history curriculums and textbooks in Turkey, Armenia and France
Oyku Gurpınar

Teaching the Armenian genocide: A comparative analysis of national history curriculums and textbooks in Turkey, Armenia and France

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14 Feburary 2018
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  • genocide of Armenians
  • historical education
  • textbooks
  • Aghed
Testing the limits of manipulation: Children as a propaganda tool in Serbian and Croatian media during the Yugoslav Wars (1991-95)
Ivana Polić

Testing the limits of manipulation: Children as a propaganda tool in Serbian and Croatian media during the Yugoslav Wars (1991-95)

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14 Feburary 2018
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  • nationalism
  • propaganda
  • Yugoslav Wars
  • children
  • ethnic conflict
Control through fear - The enemy at the gates: The case of Albania
Afrim Krasniqi

Control through fear - The enemy at the gates: The case of Albania

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13 Feburary 2018
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  • totalitarianism
  • Albania
  • Hoxha
  • communist regime
  • persecution
  • control through fear
The trauma of enforced disappearance as a topic in Central European fiction after 1989
Petra James

The trauma of 'enforced disappearance' as a topic in Central European fiction after 1989

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13 Feburary 2018
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  • Short Story
  • Novels
  • enforced disappearance
  • trauma studies
James Connollys bloodstained vest: Mediating death and violence in commemorative exhibtions
Siobhan Doyle

James Connolly's bloodstained vest: Mediating death and violence in commemorative exhibtions

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11 Feburary 2018
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  • Museum
  • commemoration
  • Easter Rising
  • James Connolly
Sound in the Silence project: Teaching method
Weronika Kann

Sound in the Silence project: Teaching method

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03 September 2017
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  • education
The story behind the picture

The story behind the picture

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24 August 2017
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  • Memory
  • 20th century history
  • borders