The ROW and the Cold War – Use and Misuse of the War Memory
Objectives 01.10.2014 - 31.05.2015
1. To outline memories of the ROW as ideological design for the relations between Russia and countries of the Soviet bloc.
2. To compare the (mis)uses of the ROW in the ideological battle at the two sides of the “iron curtain”.
3. To analyze the dynamics of the politics of memory of the ROW after the end of the Cold War – the main tendencies of reinterpretations of the memory of the ROW caused by new alliances and new nationalism.
Workshop "NATO, Warsaw Pact, and Politics of Memory" - May 2015 at University of Stavropol'