Battle for the past. Kurilla I.

History has long ceased to be the lot of scientists, turning into one of the most powerful guns in the battles of politicians. Destroyed monuments, rewritten textbooks, new street names - we have seen it more than once and, it seems, will not avoid in the future. Different interpretations of world history got into the service of political managers, but at that moment they encountered the will of the masses. Professor of the European University in St. Petersburg, Ivan Kurill, shows how the past changes and who needs it, and also tells how our appeal to history and its new interpretation affect the foreign and domestic policies of different countries. The book will be interesting to all those who want to navigate in modern historical debates in the world and especially in Russia.