...Miguel Cardina Despite the decolonization of the African territories during the second half of the 1970s, the colonial legacy continues to resonate in Portugal, shaping “organized forgetting” of colonial violence. Official ways of remembering the past glorify maritime expansion and redefine...

...Robert Vitalis The end of empires after World War II may have amounted to “the biggest reconfiguration of world politics ever seen,” but how much potency do colonial legacies retain today? The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization , Martin Thomas...

... capitalist transformation. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 capitalism decolonization de-sovietization political economy Soviet Union Tajikistan The ongoing reconstruction of Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital city, is emblematic of how the country deals with its...

... and identities. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 Russia Ukraine war culture literature imperialism decolonization On April 22, 2022, amid continuing revelations concerning Russian troops’ brutal terrorization of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv...

...Hlonipha Mokoena In South Africa, where the current movement to decolonize universities and cultural institutions has drawn international attention, its arguments often clash with the historical realities of apartheid. [email protected] Against Decolonisation: Taking African...

... Russian Revolution foreign policy Cold War Third World China United States Europe NATO anticolonialism decolonization national liberation nonaligned movement communism 258 Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its...

... warfare. THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL CHANGE Although war was the most dramatic, some of the twentieth century s other major political forces imperialism, decolonization, and democratization also had a lasting impact on the earth s environment. As the twentieth century began, Russia, Japan, the United States...