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Många sovjethistorier har skrivits, ofta utifrån en tämligen standardiserad innehållslig mall. Men varje decennium och varje generation skriver också sin egen sovjethistoria. En kort introduksjon til Sovjetunionen, ett uttryck för 2020-talets sovjetbild, betonar inte oväntat, med tanke på det ännu levande minnet av Sovjetunionens fall och det pågående ryska kriget mot Ukraina, frågor kopplade till det sovjetkommunistiska mötet med nationella identiteter och nationalism, ofta med utgångspunkt i kulturella uttrycksformer.
Although there is often a highly standardized version of Soviet history, every decade and every generation offers its own Soviet narrative. En kort introduksjon til Sovjetunionen (A short introduction to Soviet Union) expresses a 2020s view of Soviet history, with a focus on how Soviet Communism is related to national identities and nationalism, in particular Ukrainian nationalism, and often based on cultural forms of expression..

Klas-Göran Karlsson, professor in history at Lund University, reviews Det Russiske imperiet. Fra sammenbrudd til triumph (The Russian Empire: From Chaos to Ascendancy) by Halvor Tjønn (Dreyers forlag 2020).

Lessons of history are two-sided cultural products. They serve as activeinstruments of temporal orientation in a society in which historical trajectories seem obsolete and the future open, but they are also passively framed within historical cultures that often have prefigured them. Thus, lessons are seldom arbitrarily constructed. While lessons of history for many centuries were highly esteemed as guides to the future from the viewpoint of a practical past, and still are among economists, politicians and social scientists, few professional historians have trust in lessons. The distrust is explained from the lessons' lack of congruence with traditional professional standards, but also from a frequent use of historical lessons for ideological and political purposes. The purpose of this essay is partly to discuss the theoretical assumptions behind lessons of history, partly to argue in favour of a more constructive use of lessons that can meet reasonable scholarly requirements.

This book is the first collection of reports from "The Holocaust and European Historical Cultur". The title of the second collection is "Holocaust heritage"