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Guardians of the Archive and the Memory of War in Soviet Films After the Thaw 档案守护者与解冻后苏联电影中的战争记忆

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261463977

Violeta Davoliūtė

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Family Rift: The Brothers Johannes and Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Between the World Wars, 1918–1939 家庭裂痕：约翰内斯和理查德·库登霍夫-卡莱吉兄弟在两次世界大战之间，1918-1939

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-08-11 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261470181

Vaclav Horčička

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The Power of Documents and the Genealogy of Distrust: An Introduction 文件的力量和不信任的谱系：导论

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261465603

Walter Sperling, Gintarė Malinauskaitė

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Russian Writer Tolstoy, Ukrainian Filmmaker Dovzhenko and Professor Nikolaev: How the Soviet Intelligentsia Shaped the Documentation of Nazi Crimes in Liberated Kharkiv 俄罗斯作家托尔斯泰，乌克兰电影制作人多夫真科和尼古拉耶夫教授：苏联知识分子如何塑造纳粹在解放哈尔科夫的罪行记录

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-07-22 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261463976

Nathalie Moine

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War Crime Evidence and Cold War Games: The 1978 Miami Trial of a Soviet Treblinka Guard 战争罪行证据和冷战游戏：1978年迈阿密审判苏联特雷布林卡卫兵

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-07-09 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261463974

Vanessa Voisin

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Subways and Citizens. Negotiating Citizenship Through Greater Stockholm's Subway System (1950s–1970s) 地铁和市民。通过大斯德哥尔摩地铁系统协商公民身份（1950 - 1970年代）

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-05-15 DOI: 10.1177/16118944251413936

André Klaassen

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Liquidating Architecture: Demolition and the Danish ‘Ghetto’, 1960 to 2018 清算建筑：拆除和丹麦“贫民窟”，1960年至2018年

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-05-15 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261439682

Jennifer Mack

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Contentious Integration: Conflicts in the History of the European Union 有争议的一体化：欧盟历史上的冲突

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-05-11 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261441165

Alexander Nützenadel, Nikolaus Wolf, Heike Wieters, Mathieu Fulla, Aleksandra Komornicka, Silvia von Steinsdorff, Hartmut Kaelble

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Reimagining the Fabric of Community: Dense-Low Housing Architecture as a Medium for Decentralization and Civic Participation in 1970s Welfare Denmark 重新构想社区结构：20世纪70年代福利丹麦的低密度住宅建筑作为分权和公民参与的媒介

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261439688

Mikkel Høghøj

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Pram Countries: Baby Carriages From Symbols of Good Motherhood to Gender Equal Parenting in the Nordic Countries 婴儿车国家：北欧国家从好母亲的象征到性别平等的育儿

IF 0.5 3区历史学

Journal of Modern European History Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/16118944261440005

Byron Z. Rom-Jensen

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