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Episode 05: Rehabilitating the Memory of Stalin in Putin’s Russia

The militarism we see in Russia today has much to do with the rehabilitation of the memory of Stalin. ...

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Episode 04: The Great Exodus from China: Memory and Identity in Taiwan

With the Communist victory in China in 1949 nearly one million civil war refugees flooded into Taiwan—the largest out...

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Episode 03: Remembering the Slave Trade in Liverpool

Liverpool was the world’s leading slave trading port in the eighteenth century.  How has the memory of the slave...

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Episode 02: Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s Memory of the Asia-Pacific War

Visits by high level Japanese dignitaries to Yasukuni Shrine have provoked outrage among Japan’s neighbors and unease among its...

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Episode 01: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

How did Germany go from being an international pariah at the end of World War II to a leader...

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Realms of Memory Trailer

From the toppling of Civil War monuments to Putin’s claims about Nazis in Ukraine, memories of the past are...

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