The Platform of European Memory and Conscience including 21 institutions from 13 countries was founded in Prague on Friday, 14 October 2011. The Platform strives for fostering cooperation between organisations focusing on historical research and making people aware of the totalitarian regimes both at national and international levels. The Platform also aims at promoting joint [...]

Venue: Nordic Hotel Forum Conference Centre, Viru Väljak 3, Tallinn
9-10 June 2011
Conference Languages: English, Estonian
Organizers: The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory (www.mnemosyne.ee) and the Unitas Foundation (www.unitasfoundation.org).

Thursday, 9 June

10:00 Opening

10:30 Panel 1: Policy, Methods and Means for Shaping Communist Identity and Personality, moderator Marcus Meckel

Silviu Taras (Romania) – Public Rituals in Transformation – Identity Management [...]

Date: June 9-10, 2011
Conference Venue: Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
Conference Languages: English, Estonian
Organizers: The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory (www.mnemosyne.ee) and the Unitas Foundation (www.unitasfoundation.org).

The aim of totalitarian regimes was the radical transformation of personalities and of the identity of their subjects into a new ideological form. During the second half of the 20th [...]

“Estonia and the people of Estonia have endured a lot. However, even today we don’t have a real overview of what exactly happened in Estonia during the Soviet period,” said President Toomas Hendrik Ilves yesterday in Kadriorg, at the first session of the Learned Committee of the Estonian Institute of Historical [...]