The West’s reaction to the death of Mikhail Gorbachev this week has once again brought into focus its ignorance of modern Eastern European history. For Ursula von...
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Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
It’s one of the many, largely forgotten stories of recent decades in emerging Europe: the killing, on January 13, 1991 – exactly 30 years ago – of 14...
The creation of Solidarity is one of the most important events in the history of Poland and the world at the end of the 20th century. It became a moment that changed the...
October 23rd is a special date in the history of the Hungarian people for not just one, but two reasons. It marks both the beginning of the 1956 uprising against the...