Historians and the Politics of Commemoration
February 25, 2014
The recent spat between Conservative Education Secretary Michael Gove and the “left-wing historians” he blamed for distorting our view of World War One shows that anniversaries can provoke serious arguments about history and politics. In this case, Gove attacked those such as Regius Professor of History at Cambridge Richard Evans, whom he held responsible for …
Violence in Revolutionary Russia
February 10, 2014
Was the violence that accompanied the Russian Revolution and the early years of the USSR specific to the Bolshevik state, characteristic of its “totalitarianism,” or is violence somehow inherent to the formation of modern states? Did Bolshevik terror merely represent the militarisation of practices begun by the tsarist government, such as categorisation, information gathering, policing, …
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