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SOURCE: Reuters
2/16/2021
Russian Court Rejects Jailed Gulag Historian's Appeal Against Long Sentence
Yuri Dmitriev's appeal of a 13-year sentence was denied. He and his supporters contend that the charges were fabricated to punish him for writing about Stalinist atrocities in defiance of Russian nationalism.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
2/9/2021
Holocaust Scholars Ordered to Apologize in Polish Libel Case
"The Polish League Against Defamation is ideologically aligned with the country’s ruling party, and the scholars see that as an indication the case is part of a government-backed effort to promote its historical narrative."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/3/2021
In the Battle over India’s History, Hindu Nationalists Square off Against a Respected Historian
Romila Thapar's studies of the complexities of religion and ethnicity in India's history have made her a target for the nation's ruling right-wing ethnonationalist government.
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SOURCE: ZNet
11/29/2020
Is the Nationalist Tide Receding?
by Lawrence Wittner
The author contends, with hope, that the Trump presidency was a brief blip in the long decline of nationalistic conflict that will allow international cooperation for global challenges.
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11/8/2020
Blaming the Messenger: Trump, the KKK, and the War on Historians
by David Welky
Conservative demands for "patriotic" history education echo the culture war fought by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
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11/1/2020
Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020
by Jerome Slater
The author of a new history of the Israel-Palestine conflict argues that a myth of national innocence crafted by Israel and embraced by the United States impedes pragmatic compromise and costs lives through ongoing violence.
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10/11/2020
Who Owns Churchill?: Three Mythic Configurations
by Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz, and Richard Toye
A new book examines the ways that Winston Churchill's image has been used in British politics, not least by Churchill himself.
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9/20/2020
Trump's "Patriotic Education" Commission Yet Another Battle Over the Meaning of Those Words
by Ben Railton
In practice, as we see today with Trump and company, American celebratory patriotism has often been wedded to a second and far more divisive form: exclusionary mythologizing patriotism. There are alternatives that also deserve recognition as patriotism.
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SOURCE: BBC
7/22/2020
Russian Historian Jailed In Controversial Sex Abuse Case
In May, more than 150 Russians, including artists, actors and writers wrote an open letter to the court in support of the historian, saying they were "sure the accusations… are unfair and should be dismissed by the court".
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6/28/2020
Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalism and the Confederate States of America
by Ann Tucker
White southerners looked to contemporary European nationalist movements and compared the South to aspiring nations abroad. This allowed them to conceive of the South as a potential nation, distinct from the North and separate from the United States, and to justify secession and the creation of the Confederacy.
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6/14/2020
Hungarian-American Relations in 1849 and Today: Why We Need Another Lajos Kossuth
by Tim Roberts
A Hungarian nationalist visited the United States in 1849 to plead the case for an independent, democratic state, inspiring the cause of abolition in America. Today Hungarian-American relations are running in the direction of authoritarianism.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
5/8/2020
Russia Was Ready to Celebrate a Glorious Past. The Present Intervened.
As the coronavirus began its inexorable march across the country’s 11 time zones, it robbed the capital of lives, and also its chance to come together over a shared victory.
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SOURCE: TIME
5/8/2020
World War II in Europe Ended 75 Years Ago—But the World Is Still Fighting Over Who Gets to Say What Happened
The Polish historian Jan Grabowski is one of many scholars whose work has been challenged and attacked by right-wing nationalists who wish to present a purely heroic version of how Poles acted during World War II.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
4/29/2020
As Putin Seeks to Reinvent History, Russia-Czech Relations Hit a New Low
The dispute over a statue of a Soviet Army officer in Prague reflects Russian efforts to claim a heroic role in defeating fascism, eastern European nationalism, and contemporary power dynamics in the region.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/10/2020
A New Front for Nationalism: The Global Battle Against a Virus
Every country needs the same lifesaving tools. But a zero-sum mind-set among world leaders is jeopardizing access for all.
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4/5/2020
The Coronavirus Pandemic, Like Other Global Catastrophes, Reveals the Limitations of Nationalism
by Lawrence Wittner
The coronavirus disaster, like the other current catastrophes ravaging the planet, might finally convince people around the globe that transcending nationalism is central to survival.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/31/2020
Coronavirus Kills Its First Democracy
You could say that Hungary was already “immunocompromised.”
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SOURCE: Associated Press
3/29/2020
Virus Forces Europeans To Ask: How United Do We Want To Be?
The north-south divide that has dogged the European Union for years has resurfaced as the virus has galloped across the continent.
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SOURCE: NY Times
11/16/19
New Statue Unsettles Italian City: Is It Celebrating a Poet or a Nationalist?
Boasting a proud literary pedigree, Trieste is populated with statues. But none has provoked passions like that of Gabriele d’Annunzio, who inspired Fascism and briefly ruled his own state last century.
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10/20/19
To Stop The Rise of Nationalism, We Must Remember High-Tech’s Role in Supporting Past and Present Nationalistic Agendas
by Clyde W. Ford
Since the dawn of the digital age, nationalism has relied on digital technology.
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