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Published in: oDR"Activists can move a tombstone, but they cannot restore it": How photographer Christian Herrmann makes a vanished world visible
How photography and civic activism can bring an understanding of a shared past and mutual responsibility.
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Published in: oDRCreating the “Motherland” in Russian theatre
Andrey Stadnikov and Dmitry Vlasik are producing a new show on Russian history. I talked to them about the role of...
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Published in: oDRAmnesia: a key feature of Belarusian memory
There isn’t much space in Belarus for public discussion about the country’s traumatic past (or authoritarian...
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Published in: oDRHumanism is out of fashion
In today’s Russia, why is anti-militaristic speech perceived as a call for historical revisionism? RU
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Published in: oDRReading other people’s diaries in Russia
Historian Mikhail Melnichenko runs a digital archive of personal diaries from Russia's 20th century. The result is...
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Published in: oDRPhotographing the 20th century
Hungarian artist Peter Puklus talks about his photography book The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, European history of...
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Published in: oDRThe great return of the past
How does working with and through the past define our present? oDR launches a new series of articles: "Practically...