Christoph Cornelissen

Jiří Pešek

Roman Holec

Deutsch-Tschechisch-Slowakische Historikerkommission

Erinnerungskulturen in Tschechien, der Slowakei und Deutschland seit 1945

Diktatur, Krieg, Vertreibung

Arndt Weinrich

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Stefan Berger

This book explores the relationship between diverse social movements and Marxist historical cultures during the second half of the twentieth century in Western Europe, with special emphasis on the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy. During the Cold War, Marxist ideas and understandings of history informed not only the traditional Communist Parties in Western Europe, but also influenced a range of new social movements that emerged in the 1970s in the wake of the 1968 student rebellions. The generation of 1968 was strongly influenced by neo-Marxist ideas that they subsequently carried into the new social movements. The volume asks how Marxist historical cultures influenced third world movements, anti-fascist movements, the peace movement and a whole host of other new social movements that signaled a new vibrancy of civil society in Western Europe from the 1970s onwards.

Case Studies from Germany, Italy and Other Western European States

Marxist Historical Cultures and Social Movements during the Cold War

Writing the Great War

Christoph Cornelissen

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