Reimagining Spaces in Central and Eastern Europe or Memory Roulette: Legal, Political and Social Aspects
Journal: Review of Central and East European Law
Year: 2024

Abstract If one was to look for a single word to describe the historical experiences of Central and Eastern Europe ( cee ), roulette comes immediately to mind. Be that the fall of great empires of the region following World War i ( wwi ), the tragedy of World War ii ( wwii ), the Iron Curtain separating cee from the rest of the world, the fall of communism, the more recent illiberal ‘reckoning’ or the Russo-Ukrainian war, the region’s history is characterised by unpredictibility. Importantly, th