Thomas Sherlock, Professor of Politics, United States Military Academy,West Point

This volume provides essential insights into the enduring importance of the contested past in institutionalized democracies like Germany and Japan, in fragile democracies in Eastern Europe, and in hybrid regimes like Russia. It is a very timely book: if the current crisis in European integration deepens, it may undermine the advances in historical reconciliation in 'Old Europe' at the national and inter-state levels and further exacerbate the politicization of history in Eastern Europe and Russia. Acrucial method to offset this threat is to understand the complex sources and character of divisive historical politics in the post-communist era. This outstanding work provides the conceptual tools and empirical detail to accomplish this essential task.
Reviewed book: 
Editor: 
Alexei Miller
Maria Lipman
ISBN: 
978-615-5225-15-4
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$100.00 / €90.00 / £79.00