Memory
The politics of forgetting
History
An anti-Soviet protest in Kazakhstan haunts the country's current unrest
A deadly 1986 street protest in Almaty precipitated the Soviet collapse. Suddenly talk of the "December Demonstration" is all over social media, despite decades of officially enforced forgetting. Historians, sociologists and journalists weigh in on the importance of reckoning with the past to interpret the present
History
Letter from Germany: A strange and enduring love affair with the antebellum South
Tucked away in a leafy area of Berlin, the Uncle Tom’s Cabin subway station may look like the last vestige of a national obsession with the darkest period of American history, but these ideas live on in other ways
