Identity and Loss of Historical Memory. The Destruction of Archives. Acts of the conference «Revolution and Archives» (Moscow, 19-20 April, 2006) / Ed. Igor Filippov and Flocel Sabaté. Bern: Peter Lang, 2017

It’s a review of the book “Identity and Loss of Historical Memory. The Destruction of Archives”, prepared by an international team of historians under the direction of I.S. Filippov (MSU Lomonosov University) and F. Sabaté (University of Lleida, Spain) and published in Bern (Switzerland). The articles are devoted to the problems of preserving and losing archives in the course of reforms, revolutions, civil wars and other political cataclysms of Modern and Contemporary times. Scholars from ten countries of Europe and America took part in the preparation of the book. The authors reflect on affec... Mehr ...