Since communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Soviet space in 1991, those countries which recognized the communist period as one of foreign occupation have been far more successful in breaking with the past than have those...
Most of those influenced by Samuel Huntington’s ideas about “the clash of civilizations” have focused on the confrontation between the Christian West and the world of Islam. A smaller number have focused on the conflict between the...
Kyiv’s announcement that railway stations in Ukraine within three months will have signs in Ukrainian and English but not in Russian shows Ukrainian is becoming de facto and not just de jure language of Ukraine and that Ukrainians want...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
Sixty years ago at the XXth Congress of the CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev presented a report entitled “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences,” officially ushering in the liberalization of the...
Tomorrow, some will celebrate the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, and on Monday, a much smaller number will mark the anniversary of the Third Reich, a conjunction of dates that again prompts many to compare these two systems and...
Communities of 871 Ukrainian cities, towns and villages will give them new names or return to their historical names by November 21, 2015. This is 3% of all populated settlements. The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINM) published...
“The German National Socialists, despite several flaws, enjoyed great popularity and support and were skilled organizers. They pulled their country out of a prolonged and severe economic crisis and instilled confidence in the future...
Ukraine’s new legislation on de-Sovietization is a necessary step toward restoring historic justice, Vadim Shtepa says. “Without the liquidation of the imposed heritage of communism … it is impossible to achieve the complete...
“The mental gap between Ukraine and Russia is growing, and the trajectories of the two country are ever more strongly diverging,” according to Maksim Artemyev in an assessment of new Ukrainian laws opening Soviet-era secret police...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
