The past is always with us—even when governments try to alter or erase it. How does contested history shape our politics and culture?
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The Ends of History

Fall 2020

 

The past is always with us—even when governments try to alter or erase it. How does contested history shape our politics and culture?

 

 
 
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Russia's Lost War

By Izabella Tabarovsky

 

The Soviet Union erased disabled troops, women and political purges from the narrative of its victory in World War II. Today’s Russian state has done the same.

 

Lightning Writing

By Jonathan Holloway and Richard Byrne

Wilson Center 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow Jonathan Holloway traces Woodrow Wilson’s vexed legacy on racial equality.

 

The Past’s Transformative Power in China

By Zheng Wang

How does the memory of national humiliation in the 19th and 20th Centuries drive Chinese propaganda to this day?

 
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