Repression and Memory Laws: Controlling a Nation's Past

This short extract examines how governments of all stripes attempt to control national past as a way of controlling the future.

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Professor Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University.

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