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Anna Grinberg

Hanken School of Economics. Student in the interdisciplinary Master’s School in Russian and East European Studies coordinated by the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki.

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Articles by Anna Grinberg

  1. MEMORY BATTLEFIELD ON THE EAST FRONT: UKRAINE AND POLAND

    Discussions about the assessment of historic events have always had their place in the public discourse in democratic societies, whereas totalitarian regimes such as the Communist one preferred an official version of history that is not up for debate. This is why a conflict-prone memory boom in the CEE was to be expected after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The only recently intensified trend is to fight memory wars with the means of memory laws, i.e. by using laws prescribing and proscribing certain representations of historic events as a weapon to protect one’s national collective memory from divergent interpretation by others. Such approach to governing memory wars are detrimental to the neighborly relations, i.e. turning them into un-neighborly ones.

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