By Ksenia Northmore-Ball (University of Nottingham; email: ldzkan@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk) Whoever, in a given society, controls the content of school textbooks is in the highly privileged position of shaping how the next generation of citizens views the world. As the American Pulitzer-winning journalist and historian, Frances FitzGerald has said, school textbooks “tell children what their elders … Continue reading Taking over schools is taking over the heart and minds of the next generation: The case of Hungary
Reviving lost memory by re-creating life in the socialist GDR
By Ksenia Northmore-Ball (University of Nottingham; Email: Ksenia.Northmore-Ball@nottingham.ac.uk) Usually, if a loved one is unfortunate enough to suffer from Alzheimer’s, we think of bringing family photos and playing old tunes and films to jog their memory. But it would seem that in eastern Germany a retirement home has successfully taken more drastic measures to help restore memory … Continue reading Reviving lost memory by re-creating life in the socialist GDR
Media Review: The NYT on sex before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain
A recent article in the New York Times discusses the change in women's sexual life before and after Communism. "The generational divide between daughters and mothers who reached adulthood on either side of 1989 supports the idea that women had more fulfilling lives during the Communist era. And they owed this quality of life, in … Continue reading Media Review: The NYT on sex before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain
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