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Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin is struggling to convince people why history is on his side – both internationally and at home.
The war in Ukraine is just the latest chapter in a long, tangled relationship between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church.
History always served as a weapon in the former Soviet Union, a way to control the narrative and deny the truth of the past. Vladimir Putin is now attempting to control this narrative through war.
To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks less like an act of aggression and more like reintegration.
Just because deep-rooted Russian fears might not seem reasonable doesn’t mean they aren’t real in Vladimir Putin’s mind.
The Russian leader’s assertion that Ukraine is an ‘artificial construct’ is not borne out by the historical record.
The two countries have a lot of shared history, but Ukraine has a distinct and independent past.
After a century of debate, Europe still hasn’t figured out how to deal with its giant of a neighbour.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is as much an imperial power as its Soviet and Tsarist predecessors were.
The Death of Stalin has been banned in Russia. While the film is hardly disrespectful to Russian people, it does make Putin uncomfortable with its satirical take of leadership.
The physical and political space of cities can be shaped from above or below, but few have had more revolutionary changes, first under the tsars, then the communists, than St Petersburg.
The Godfather effect: how higher levels of education helped Italian mobsters earn more money and live in wealthier neighbourhoods.
Because the Kremlin hopes to project strength and unity, history isn’t used as much to inform as it is to inspire, with events cherry-picked to fit within a fuzzy framework of ‘Russian greatness.’
In the 19th century, Russian intellectuals launched a search for historical evidence of their moral and military superiority. What they found drives what today some call “Russian aggression.”
On September 29 1941, Nazis murdered more than 30,000 Jews in a ravine outside Kiev. Dmitri Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony, Babi Yar, is a damning critique of the Soviet Union’s lack of recognition of the massacre, and a condemnation of Stalinism.
The recently translated letters of Latvian poet and journalist Arsenii Formakov depict everyday life – and suffering – in the Gulag.
How is Vladimir Putin - for whom uprisings are anathema - treating this year’s centenary of the Russian revolution?
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Hansen Professor in History, Deputy Dean, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Associate in History, University of Oxford
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Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter
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Professor of Economics, University of Essex
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