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Communism’s “Bright Past”: Loyalty to the Party despite the Gulag

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2014
The Soviet Gulag has joined the tragic annals of what has been described as “man’s inhumanity to man”. Yet some prisoners, many of whom were falsely convicted, emerged from the experience maintaining their loyalty to the system of government that was ...
Nanci Adler
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‘[You Are German] When You no Longer Stick Out’: The Meaning of Being German From the Perspective of Germans With and Without a Migrant Background

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While several quantitative studies have examined civic and ethno‐cultural notions of nationhood among German citizens, the meaning of being German in general and the ambiguities of the term in particular have remained underexplored. Furthermore, this line of scholarship has examined German citizens but has neglected the perspective of Germans ...
Marlene Mußotter, Eunike Piwoni
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The Role of Memorial Places in the Culture of the Holocaust Memory: Guidelines for Understanding and Research Methods

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2006
This article analyses the ideas defining the role of memorial places that are relevant to research concerning the development of Holocaust memory in Lithuania.
Hektoras Vitkus
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
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Memoricide: The Holocaust and North American Genocide in Public Memory (2021-04-14)

, 2021
Presented by Gideon Mailer, Chair, History Program, Department of History, Political Science & International Studies at UMD; Apr 14 2021; 4:30 PM; via ZoomMailer, Gideon; University of Minnesota Duluth. Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee. (
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The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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The past is a foreign country

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
International criminal investigations are not only legal exercises but epistemological and cultural ones. Drawing on the author’s work across human rights practice, international tribunals, journalism and historical scholarship, this essay observes that ...
Thijs B. Bouwknegt
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From Tweets to Tyranny: Exploring the Symmetry Between State and Social Media Censorship of Speech

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Bhanuraj Kashyap, Paul Formosa
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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