On 18 April 2021, 12 European football clubs collectively issued a letter of
intent to form a new European Super League. This attempted coup was
strongly opposed across English football. Afterwards, the responsible
owner-oligarchs were singled out for special criticism from pundits and
supporter organizations alike. What emerged was a focus…[Read more]

This chapter provides a striking account of corruption in a state that saw itself as both free from corruption and as a clear exponent of the modern belief in the end of corruption; namely, the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR). It discusses the official ideology and the anticorruption laws that were in place but also three distinct types…[Read more]

I will mainly focus on a collection of films made between 1972 and 1985 by the Staatliche Filmdokumentation (SFD)—the State Film
Documentation unit—which survived as part of the collection of the Staatliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA), the former national film archive
of the GDR.

Discusses Irina Nikolaevna Il’ina, Obshchestvennye organizatsii Rossii v 1920-e gody [Civil Organizations in Russia in the 1920s], in Kritika 3, 1 (Winter 2002): 173-81; discussed by later works on “obshchestvennost'”

Discusses works on partisans, including:

Cerovic, Masha. Les Enfants de Staline: La guerre des partisans soviétiques
(1941–1944). L’Univers historique. Paris: Le Seuil, 2018. 366 pp. €25.00.
ISBN 978-2-0211-2167-4.

Kudriashov, S. V., ed. Partizanskoe dvizhenie v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi
voiny. Vestnik Arkhiva Prezidenta Rossii…[Read more]

The digitisation of analogue film and the archiving
of the digitised material is a complex task and requires
not only technical decisions but also a discussion on how
to make the resulting digitised material accessible. This
contribution will start by outlining the concept of preservation
for film and then present the current state of…[Read more]