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    Serien series Reflections
    My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive and emotional effects of compulsory school readings; socialist realist art and film; and Radio Free Europe and Voice of America and their role in shaping her generation Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Grand Hotel Abyss

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    In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects Lesen Sie mehr

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  • The Soviet Union

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  • When Reason Goes on Holiday

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  • The Burden of the Past

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    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (Book Analysis)

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  • Everyday Life in Russia

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  • The Day After the Revolution

    Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

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  • Revolution at the Gates

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  • Conversations with Gorbachev

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