Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events

Can lessons of history develop our orientation in time? Few scholars have responded positively to this challenge. In this theoretically innovative book, prominent scholarly works on the Holocaust and Soviet terror from the 1960s to the present are analyzed to demonstrate the qualities of time-transcending borderline events as lessons of history.

Klas-Göran Karlsson has been Professor of History at Lund University since 2000 and specializes in modern international history, particularly: Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies; Genocide Studies; history of the World Wars; The Baltic Sea regional history; and Uses of History in society, culture, and education.