History museums in the Caucasus. Between soviet nostalgia and current regional disputes

The Stalin Museum in Gori (Georgia)| Picture: Oriol López, EUROM   By Oriol López Badell,  coordinator of the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), University of Barcelona’ Solidarity Foundation.   The region known as the South Caucasus comprises the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. All of them became independent states in 1991 with …

The international spread of state interventionism in history and historical memory

Cover picture: Lyon Armenian Genocide Memorial was erected in 2006 in central Lyon, France. It was designed by Leonardo Basmadyian and includes 36 white concrete pieces supported by stones from Armenia. Poems of Kostan Zarian are written on the concrete pieces | EUROM By Georges Mink, senior researcher emeritus at the Institut des Sciences Sociales …