Monuments and Memory Wars in Hungary
For more about monuments and historical revisionism in Eastern Europe, read Kristen Ghodsee’s article, “Victims of Communism and Historical Amnesia in...
Kristen Ghodsee has her Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley and is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. She has held residential research fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC; the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in Germany. Ghodsee is the author of five books and numerous articles on communism, postcommunism, and economic transition in Eastern Europe, and cultural studies in 2012. Her latest book, The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe, is forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2015. Her website is: http://scholar.harvard.edu/kristenghodsee/home