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Beyond Brave Little Blighty II: The Truth
In the second instalment of her column, Sofia Johanson comments on two films that deal with the near-impossible task of publicising what was going on in the concentration camps during the war.
Beyond Brave Little Blighty I: Occupation
In her first instalment of her column ‘Beyond Brave Little Blighty’, REECA editor Sofia Johanson considers filmic representations of Nazi occupation in Eastern and Western Europe, through the lens of Dutch and Polish examples.
The Remains of the Red Day II - An Endless Great Patriotic War
Anatoly Grablevsky considers the long shadow of the Great Patriotic War in Soviet and post-Soviet space in the second installment of his column ‘The Remains of the Red Day’, exploring its continued influence on cultural output and contemporary politics.
The Remains of the Red Day I - The Long Shadow of the Russian Civil War
Anatoly Grablevsky explores the Russian Civil War’s lasting impact on the national consciousness in the first installment of his column ‘The Remains of the Red Day’.
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- Bas(qu)ing in difference: the Beauty of the Basque identity
- Berlin Bulletin
- Between Wars, Between Identities
- Beyond Brave Little Blighty
- Bing and Bao - A Culinary Diary in Taipei
- Cairo Chronicles
- Continental Cambridge
- Deformation as Reformation
- Dialogues with the Dead
- Does Michel Houellebecq still matter?
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- Egyptian Soul
- Epilogue to a Travel Blog
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- Exploring the Epics
- Film Across Borders
- Flâneur bops and flops
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- Germanistik: In search of the female writer...
- Germanistik: In search of the female writer…
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- Las ideas no se matan: reflexiones sobre la literatura latinoamericana
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- Los Niños de la Guerra
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- Modern Fiction in Translation
- More than Music
- Musings on Benjamin and Berlin
- Opinion
- Parisistible
- Perché Sanremo è Sanremo
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- Representation in British Sign Language
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- Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
- Secrets of the Steppe
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