Watch the recordings of discussions about the poet's legacy in film, literature, politics, and our collective consciousness.

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New Curated Collection Presents Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence

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Winning Freedom: Ukraine, 1989–1991

Until the early 1990s, the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, known today as the Holodomor, belonged to the most repressed topics in Ukrainian and broader East European history.

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The Memory of the Holodomor in Ukraine: A Dissonant Heritage that Haunts the Presence

Interview with György Jovánovics about his 1974 Plans for a Roma Holocaust Memorial

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“She Had Been Shot into It by Hungarians, by Privates”

A Polish Political Assassination’s Echoes in Eastern Europe.

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“I believe I’m next”

 On view at the Blinken OSA Archivum, the exhibition Commissioned Memory - Hungarian Exhibitions in Auschwitz, 1960/1965 debates whether

Luftwaffe aerial photograph of Babyn Yar, 1943 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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Protesting at Babyn Yar

 What do we primarily remember Nikita Khrushchev for? We may remember the 1953–1964 leader of the Soviet Union for

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Khrushchev in Hungary: How Isolated Eastern Leaders Reinforced Each Other

 A year ago today, on August 30, 2022, Mikhail Gorbachev, final leader of the Soviet Union between 1985 and

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“Toward a World Without Weapons and Violence” – Mikhail Gorbachev Died 1 Year Ago

Fifty-five years ago today, five Soviet-led Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia to put an end to the Prague Spring reform

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“Do Friends Come to Visit with Tanks?” – Reactions to the 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 55 Years Later

András Mink talked to film historian Balázs Varga about the Petőfi '73 film. 

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Petőfi mirages #8 Ferenc Kardos: Petőfi '73

The Story of the Legendary Performance of the Szeged University Stage.

Petőfi mirages #7 Petőfi-Rock

We presented the main features of Petőfi’s popular memory with prose and musical illustrations and show how subsequent research tried to follow this up.

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