Introduction: Redesigning the Past : History in Political Transitions
Richard J. Evans University of Cambridge, England 5

Redesigning History in Contemporary Russia
Catherine Merridale University of Bristol, UK 13

The Origins of the Two 'World Wars' : Historical Discourse and International Politics
David Reynolds Christ's Church College, Cambridge, UK 29

The Third Reich in German History Textbooks since 1945
Bodo von Borries Hamburg University, Germany 45

Former GDR Historians in the Reunified Germany : An Alternative Historical Culture and its Attempts to Come to Terms with the GDR Past
Stefan Berger University of Glamorgan 63

Entangled Memories : Versions of the Past in Germany and Japan, 1945-2001
Sebastian Conrad Free University of Berlin, Germany 85

Popular Representations of the Past : The Case of Postwar Japan
Naoko Shimazu University of London 101

Old Ghosts, New Memories : China's Changing War History in the Era of Post-Mao Politics
Rana Mitter University of Oxford 117

Post-Colonial Histories of South Asia : Some Reflections
Sugata Bose Harvard University 133

The Absolution of History : Uses of the Past in Castro's Cuba
Nicola Miller University College London 147