“The Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era, Facing Revisionist Russia: Ukraine and Georgia in comparative perspective” webinar on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 11:00AM to 1:00PM (EDT) addressed the instrumentalization of the historical past and populist claims to historical truth that reached ‘new heights’ in a world characterized as the ‘post-truth era.’ The speakers, Malkhaz Toria and Mykola Balaban, discussed the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s populist justifications of the historical reasons for the ‘Russian-Georgian War’ in August of 2008, the Russian-Ukrainian conflicts in Donbas and Luhansk regions, and the annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea by Russia.
Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia