The convolutions of historical politics / edited by Alexei Miller and Maria Lipman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: historical politics: Eastern European convolutions in the 21st century / Alexei Miller -- German history politics and the National Socialist past / Stefan Berger -- Poland's institute of national remembrance: a ministry of memory? / Dariusz Stola -- Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: debating the history of a single day / Maciej Janowski -- The memory of Trianon as a political instrument in Hungary today / Gábor Gyáni -- The "politics of history" as a case of foreign-policy making / Alexander Astrov -- The "nationalization" of history in Ukraine / Georgiy Kasianov -- The "politics of memory" and "historical policy" in post-Soviet Moldova / Andrei Cusco -- Interventions: challenging the myths of twentieth-century Ukrainian history / John-Paul Himka -- Caught between history and politics: the experience of a Moldovan historian studying the Holocaust / Diana Dumitru -- The turns of Russian historical politics, from Perestroika to 2011 / Alexei Miller -- Politics of history in Turkey: revisionist historiography's challenge to the official version of the Turkish war of independence / Sener Aktürk -- The politics of history in contemporary Japan / Jeff Kingston.