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Between Cooperation and Alarmism: Problems of Common History Interpretation in Russia and China

The most effective strategy for Russia would be memorialization of the Far East’s development and of the peaceful periods of Russian-Chinese interaction, coupled with measured diplomacy, as a harsher approach can only ignite Chinese revanchism.

Ivan Yu. Zuenko

On a Place in Time

In fact, memory politics itself is presented, first and foremost, with regard to modernization, its successes and/or failures, its one-sidedness or, on the contrary, its ability to transform society, synchronize it, and/or create “islands of modernity” in the middle of the space that remains in a different time.

Andrei A. Teslya

Mnemonic Security Dilemma. Memory as Casus Belli

The greatest danger of “memory wars” is that they are easy to unleash, but very difficult to end. The antagonistic nature of discussions about the past often becomes self-sustaining.

Dmitry V. Yefremenko

North Korean Narrative on the Second World War: Why the Change?

The North Korean narrative on the Second World War originated from the Soviet narrative on the immediate post-War period, which was implanted into the DPRK by Soviet overseers in the late 1940s. In later years it was altered by the North Korean authorities to fit the changes in the state ideology.

Fyodor K. Tertitskiy