Cultural Memory of Yugoslav Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War [1]

During the Croatian War of Independence, the Croatian Army and military police had occupied the barracks, which were then handed over to the city of Rijeka and finally transformed into the university campus that opened in 2011. Since then I have heard rumours that a monument to the Spanish Civil War had once been located on the site of the former barracks, but the building of the campus had completely changed the landscape and all my efforts to track down information on the possible existence of a monument were fruitless.

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 …