The Politics of Memory Laws

Uladzislau Belavusau is Senior Researcher in European Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Maria Mälksoo is Associate Professor at the Centre for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Angelika Nußberger is Professor at Cologne University, Germany.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
1. SECTION ONE: Memory Laws and Policies in Russia
1.1. An Unspeakable Past: Why and How History Became an Object of Criminal Law in Russia
1.2. Memory Laws and Policies in Russia After the Annexation of Crimea and Occupation of Donbas
1.3. Putin’s Memory Policies in the Context of Military Aggression in Ukraine
2. SECTION TWO: Memory Laws and Policies in Ukraine
2.1. Ukrainian Memory Laws and Policies Before 2014
2.2. Ukrainian Decommunization Laws of 2015
2.3. Ukrainian Memory Laws and Policies in the Context of 2022 Russian Aggression
3. SECTION THREE: Neighbours Actively Involved in the Regional Memory Wars
3.1. Wounds Unhealed: Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Russian Memory Wars Before 2022
3.2. Memory Laws and Policies in Belarus
3.3. “Critical Situations” and Mnemonic Legislation: Memory Politics in the Baltic States and the War in Ukraine
3.4. From Threat to Example: The Transformation of Russia’s Role in Hungary’s Memory Governance
3.5. Memory Wars and Policies in Finland
4. SECTION FOUR: Shaping European Law and Politics in the Context of Memory Wars
4.1 German Prototype for Memory Laws and Policies in Europe in the Context of Putin’s Instrumentalization of Denazification
4.2 Memory Laws and Policies in the EU and Council of Europe in the Context of Russian Military Aggression from 2014 to 2022
4.3 European Court of Human Rights as a Substitute Nuremberg for the Soviet Crimes in the Baltic States?
4.4. The Looking Glass War: Russian Aggression against Ukraine and the Lessons of World War II in International Memory Politics
5. EPILOGUE - The Battle for the Past: War and Memory in the Post-Soviet Space