... Brest-Litovsk, and did it mark the conclusion of Russia’s involvement in this war? This is where we encounter two key historical narratives based primarily on differing attitudes to the events of the First World War, the 1917 Revolution, and the subsequent Civil War. It is not so much a matter of academic discourse as of historical memory, constructed on the values and emotions sparked by different attitudes toward historical events.
One tradition is linked to the question of how these events were interpreted ...
... four coups, seen six presidents violently removed (although with minor exceptions), and experienced several bloody domestic conflicts that almost developed into full-scale genocidal wars, with a death toll of over 110,000 in the 1972 clashes alone. The civil wars of 1993-2003 were very dramatic, and it was only the intensive intervention by the international community that defused the situation. In 1996-2000, Central and East African states held as many as ten summits on Burundi, with the key peacemaking ...
... if my readers can recall my earlier post on social sciences research – it is absolutely disgraceful that the wars which caused millions to die and involved Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Burundi and Congo, were so poorly documented. Also, the tag of a civil war should be discarded, as it involved a huge amount of foreign participation. It is hard to predict how Congo will be able to continue being a sovereign country with so many aggressors around it, who all want its mineral assets; in a way it is ...
