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Between Legacy and Revisionism: Lech Wałęsa’s Iconic Journey in the Shifting Landscape of Polish History

September 29, 2023 Lidia Zessin-Jurek 1

To mark the 70th birthday of Lech Wałęsa in 2013, the Polish Post issued a commemorative stamp. This year’s 80th birthday of the Solidarity leader, […]

Somebody Else’s Job: Interrogating the ‘Irrationality’ of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

February 28, 2022 Andrea Chandler 1

As a political scientist, I am often asked what makes Russian President Vladimir Putin tick. Although Russian politics should never be reduced to the mind […]

My Ukraine Is Not Yet Lost

February 27, 2022 Omer Bartov 7

I first went to Ukraine in March 2003 to visit my mother’s hometown of Buczacz, now known as Buchach, and to undertake preliminary research in […]

Refusing the Extended Hand

June 11, 2021 Fabian Wolff 2

Allow me some genuine modesty: I come to you not as an historian but just as as an unspecified writer—albeit one obsessed with history, and […]

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The #NewFascismSyllabus is a crowd-sourced collection of scholarly writings on the history of fascist, authoritarian, and right-wing populist movements and governments. It is intended to serve as an entryway into the scholarly literature for those seeking deeper insights into how past societies have gravitated towards authoritarianism, and seeks to provide comparative perspectives on how everyday people, as well as cultural authorities and civil institutions, coped and, in some cases, resisted these changes.

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