TY - JOUR
T1 - Victimhood olympics
AU - Slezkine, Yuri
AU - Krastev, Ivan
AU - Aust, Martin
AU - Sowa, Jan
AU - Enyuan, Wu
AU - Lieven, Anatol
AU - Ushakin, Sergey
AU - Sakwa, Richard
AU - Kolstø, Pål
AU - Kasyanov, Georgy
AU - Xiaoli, Guo
AU - Smolar, Aleksander
AU - Hilbrenner, Anke
AU - Iskandaryan, Alexander
AU - Robinson, Paul
AU - Lankov, Andrei
AU - Xian, Lanxin
AU - Miller, Alexei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In January 2020, the Russian-language bimonthly “Russia in Global Affairs” published an article on “memory politics” and related conflicts, following a roundtable hosted by the magazine (Rossiya, 2020). To our amazement, the discussion caused a very keen reaction, especially in Europe. Our modest publication was immediately dubbed as nearly a forge of Kremlin ideas regarding “memory wars,” which, of course, is flattering, but, alas, is not true. In general, the willingness to see behind everything a conspiracy of dark forces and the belief that everything happens for a reason, well-known to us from our own history, have now spectacularly become commonplace. So, since the topic triggered such a powerful response, we decided to take it further by asking members of the academic community in different countries how they assess the current state of affairs in “memory politics.” They came up with a very broad range of opinions, which we gladly share with our readers.
AB - In January 2020, the Russian-language bimonthly “Russia in Global Affairs” published an article on “memory politics” and related conflicts, following a roundtable hosted by the magazine (Rossiya, 2020). To our amazement, the discussion caused a very keen reaction, especially in Europe. Our modest publication was immediately dubbed as nearly a forge of Kremlin ideas regarding “memory wars,” which, of course, is flattering, but, alas, is not true. In general, the willingness to see behind everything a conspiracy of dark forces and the belief that everything happens for a reason, well-known to us from our own history, have now spectacularly become commonplace. So, since the topic triggered such a powerful response, we decided to take it further by asking members of the academic community in different countries how they assess the current state of affairs in “memory politics.” They came up with a very broad range of opinions, which we gladly share with our readers.
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U2 - 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-62-99
DO - 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-62-99
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100470431
SN - 1810-6374
VL - 18
SP - 62
EP - 99
JO - Russia in Global Affairs
JF - Russia in Global Affairs
IS - 4
ER -