Politics of Memory Laws

Russia, Ukraine and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-7530-3
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1600 g

This open access book explores the political utility and consequences of memory laws with a focus on how militant memory laws frame, underpin and generate international conflicts.

Proceeding from Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine, this examination plots how memory laws have preceded, partially led to, and encouraged the outbreak of the war itself via Russian propaganda. It also offers a broader perspective looking at developments in the Baltic States, Belarus, Finland, Germany, Hungary, and Poland, as well as in European (Council of Europe and European Union) law. Bringing together scholars with diverse perspectives, this book provides both analysis and conceptual reflection for scholars assessing the politics of memory laws.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open Access was funded by the University of Copenhagen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belavusau, Uladzislau

Gliszczynska-Grabias, Aleksandra

Mälksoo, Maria

Nußberger, Angelika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Gedächtnis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Shadows of History: Memory Laws in Europe in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Uladzislau Belavusau, Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Maria Mälksoo, and Angelika Nußberger

Part One: Memory Laws and Policies in Russia

1. The Politics of Memory and Legislative Discourse on Rehabilitation of Nazism in Russia in the 1990s and 2000s, Andrii Nekoliak and Paul Primbs
2. Memory Laws and Policies in Russia After the Annexation of Crimea and Occupation of Donbas, Ilya Nuzov
3. Putin's Memory Policies in the Context of Military Aggression in Ukraine, Gleb Bogush

Part Two: Memory Laws and Policies in Ukraine

4. Ukrainian Memory Laws and Policy Before 2014: Overcoming the Past, Alina Cherviatsova
5. Ukrainian Memory Laws and Decommunization Policies from the Euromaidan to the Full-Scale Russian Invasion, Tatiana Zhurzhenko
6. Ukrainian Memory Laws and Policies in the Context of 2022 Russian Aggression, Andrii Nekoliak

Part Three: Neighbours Actively Involved in the Regional Memory Wars

7. Wounds Unhealed: Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Russian Memory Wars Before 2022, Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias
8. Memory Laws and Policies in Belarus in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Uladzislau Belavusau
9. "Critical Situations" and Mnemonic Legislation: Memory Politics in the Baltic States and Russia's War Against Ukraine, Dovile Budryte
10. The Transformation of Russia in Hungary's Memory Governance, Marina Bán
11. Finnish-Russian Memory Conflicts Before and After the Russo-Ukrainian War, Tuomas Forsberg

Part Four: Shaping European Law and Politics in the Context of Memory Wars

12. German Prototype for Memory Laws and Policies in Europe in the Context of Putin's Instrumentalisation of Denazification, Paula Rhein-Fischer
13. Memory Narratives and Policies in the EU and the Council of Europe in the Context of Russian Military Aggression from 2014 to 2023, Anna Wójcik
14. The Regulation of Historical Memory in the Council of Europe: The European Court of Human Rights Before and After 2022, Dovile Sagatiene
15. The Looking Glass War: Russian Aggression Against Ukraine and the Lessons of World War II in International Memory Politics, Maria Mälksoo
16. Epilogue: The Battle for the Past: War and Memory in the Post-Soviet Space, David R. Marples

Über Autor(innen)

Gliszczynska-Grabias, Aleksandra
Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias is Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Nußberger, Angelika
Angelika Nußberger is Professor at University of Cologne teaching international law and comparative constitutional law.

Mälksoo, Maria
Maria Mälksoo is Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Belavusau, Uladzislau
Uladzislau Belavusau is a Senior Researcher in European law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague) - University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2011-2015) and holds his Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has published extensively on EU anti-discrimination law, human rights, comparative constitutional law, and memory politics. In 2015, Dr. Belavusau received the Marco Biagi Award for the best article from the International Association of Labour Law Journals.

Uladzislau Belavusau is Senior Researcher in European Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias is Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.
Maria Mälksoo is Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Angelika Nußerger is Professor at Cologne University, Germany.