Bartłomiej Gajos
Special guest
Dr. Bartłomiej "Bartek" Gajos is a historian of the Soviet Union and Russia. Since 2017, he has been a research fellow at the Juliusz Mieroszewski Centre for Dialogue. He also works as the Editorial Assistant of the “Novaya Polsha”/"Nova Polshcha" journal (www.novayapolsha.pl). As a Senior Research Fellow at the Polish public institution, the Mieroszewski Center, he analyzes the current state of affairs in Russia and Ukraine, particularly the politics of memory. In 2021 he defended his PhD disseration "The Politics of Memory of the Early Bolshevik Regime, 1917-1920."
Bartłomiej Gajos has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Gravedigger of the Present: Memory Politics and the Weaponization of History
December 9th, 2023 | Season 6 | 45 mins 9 secs
conflict, history, politics, putin, stalin, ukraine russia war
In this episode, Bartek Gajos discusses his in-depth research into memory politics during the Soviet period and today, specifically the weaponization of history by the Russian regime, the past's influence on present actions taken by great powers, NATO expansion and EU enlargement, and the questions surrounding Polish-Ukrainian relations. Bartek appropriately quotes Nietzsche: "... the past must be forgotten if it is not to become the gravedigger of the present." Thanks for listening!