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Category: History and Memory

What kind of history does Europe need?

Europe has entered a new era that in many ways echoes the nation-building processes of the 19th century. This time, however, the driving force comes from Eurosceptic actors challenging those who advocate for deeper European integration.

September 11, 2026 - Georges Mink

Freedom on the airwaves

For more than 75 years, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has provided independent news to audiences living under censorship, dictatorship and war. From communist Europe to today’s Russia, Iran and Afghanistan, its mission has remained remarkably consistent, even as the broadcaster now faces one of the greatest challenges in its own history.

September 10, 2026 - Piotr Leszczyński

A forgotten hussar

Across Central and Eastern Europe, governments and civic and cultural organizations have revived internationally active historical figures or even lesser-known diplomats, scientists, and explorers as evidence that their respective nations were always globally connected. One of these figures is Mihály Kováts de Fabriczy, a Hungarian hussar whose legacy is richer than his unwarranted obscurity suggests.

September 10, 2026 - Adam Reichardt

Where East meets West

This text was published in the very first issue of New Eastern Europe by the late Martin Pollack, Austrian author, translator and friend of the magazine. Its relevance is just as strong today, as demonstrated by this abridged version.

September 10, 2026 - Martin Pollack

Šeduva’s Lost Shtetl humanises a vanished world

A world-class museum pays a poignant tribute to Lithuania’s erstwhile Jewish community.

August 14, 2026 - Ludo Segers

Prometheism, post-Russia, and the future of policy in Eurasia

One hundred years ago, Marshal Józef Piłsudski institutionalized a bold vision for Poland’s foreign policy in the face of Soviet imperialism and aggression. Today, when Russian revisionism evokes the geopolitical threats of the previous century, western academics and foreign policymakers should look to revive Piłsudski’s Promethean strategy to decolonize Russia once and for all.

June 22, 2026 - Kacper Grass

The return of the despot

The philosopher Karl Jaspers, writing in the aftermath of the Second World War in Germany, maintained that only a nation prepared to recognize its own guilt can recover from the moral and spiritual catastrophe of totalitarianism. The Germans slowly came to understand this after 1945. In Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the new authorities never acted on this realization.

April 20, 2026 - Jens Malling

The myth of the Dalwitz saboteurs

The history of the Dalwitz Battalion reveals the gap between myth and reality in narratives of Belarusian wartime collaboration. Far from constituting a coherent anti-Soviet resistance, the unit was part of a late and largely unsuccessful German attempt to deploy local collaborators in sabotage operations. Its rapid collapse exposes the limits of both Nazi strategy and later attempts at myth-making.

April 20, 2026 - Ihar Melnikau

Prussia’s forgotten heritage

After the final partition of Poland in 1795, Prussia emerged not only as a territorial winner but also a multi-lingual state: Polish speakers constituted nearly half of its population and more than half of the kingdom’s territory consisted of newly annexed Polish lands. Yet this was also a missed political opportunity.

February 22, 2026 - Piotr Leszczyński

Is the past for sale?

In Poland, cultural heritage has increasingly become a site where memory, market logic and political power intersect. From urban regeneration projects and nostalgia tourism to digitally-branded cultural platforms and AI-generated public figures, the past is often packaged, optimized and sold.

February 22, 2026 - Giorgia Maurovich

Gdańsk’s heritage and reconstruction after the war

After the Second World War, Gdańsk was fully integrated into Poland. Subsequently, the population dynamic of the city changed – many German residents fled or were expelled, and were replaced by Poles, who came especially from areas lost to the Soviets in the former eastern lands. With new rulers and a new populace in place, a question arose – what to do about the ruined city?

September 26, 2025 - Błażej Kowacz

Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a land suspended between memory and oblivion

Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a battleground, where nationalism and ethnic divisions are highly visible. Thirty years after the war, more than 50 schools in the country are “schools under one roof”, where students are divided not only by curriculum but also physically. In one of these schools, a history teacher presents her lessons according to two different curricula.

July 8, 2025 - Joshua Evangelista Tatjana Dordevic

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