Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was
operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central …

How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different
individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, and some support …

While archival research most often does not include direct interaction with living subjects,
ethical issues surrounding this method are no less acute. These issues are even more …

Transfer and redistribution of wealth accompany most violent conflicts throughout the world,
yet the local-level political and economic effects of this phenomenon remain unexplored. We …

Why do some communities overtly declare their opposition to violent groups, while others
disguise it by engaging in seemingly unrelated activities? Why do some communities …

A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a'great leveller', this extraordinarily
original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian …

Conflict scholars have increasingly stressed the importance of taking civilian agency
seriously for understanding how conflicts operate on the ground and the social legacies they …

As they pursue information and deploy violence during conflict, combatants compose,
catalog, and preserve a wide variety of records, such as memos, investigative reports, and …

A growing literature links experiences of armed conflict with postwar political behavior. This
paper examines how legacies of wartime violence shape dynamics of protest in twenty-first …

Why do some groups survive government repression while others get eliminated? This
paper offers a corrective to the widely held theory that locally embedded opposition …