Old and New Faultlines in the Wake of Russia’s Assault on Ukraine
Demilitarization and denazification—when Vladimir Putin announced the goals of the Russian attack on Ukraine, I perked up. As a scholar of World War II and […]
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“What Remains”: The Reverberations of War in Poland and Ukraine
“Do not forget to eat your vegetables” was not the message I expected to receive from a friend who now spends her days in and […]
Putin and the Weaponization of the Memory of World War II and the Holocaust
Much of the commentary so far on the Russian attack on Ukraine has focused on the intertwined historical and contemporary contexts of the Soviet Union […]
Into the Irrational Core of Pure Violence: On the Convergence of neo-Eurasianism and the Kremlin’s War in Ukraine
At the same time as Russian forces began blasting munitions at the Babi Yar memorial, the ravine in Kyiv where Nazi troops massacred over 33,000 […]
Seen from the “West” – What Went Wrong with Ukraine?
It is still difficult to shake off the disbelief: Putin is waging a brutal war in Ukraine. To the west of Ukraine, we are following […]
On New Martial Masculinities for Russia and Ukraine
Like the other contributors to this blog over the past week and many other regional experts from around the world, as a historian of the […]
Somebody Else’s Job: Interrogating the ‘Irrationality’ of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
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 […]
