Acknowledgements
The initial research for the studies in this volume was carried out over three years in an Australian Research Council project “Judging the Past in a Post-Cold War World” by co-investigators, Judith Keene, Peter Read, Elizabeth Rechniewski, Adrian Vickers and Marivic Wyndham. At the end of the project we invited a group of scholars who have been actively researching contemporary perspectives on the Cold War in one of a broad range of locations to join us in a colloquium at The University of Sydney in September 2015. The brief for the participants was to reflect on the ways in which the Cold War has been re-interrogated and re-conceptualised within their own research areas and, if applicable, how the victims of that era have been accorded recognition and reparation. A selection of the papers was chosen to form the basis of this volume.
We thank the members of the research team for their ongoing contribution to the preparation of this publication, our copy editors Louise Scahill and Geoff Hunt, and the anonymous editors appointed by Brill for their perceptive and very useful comments. We are also glad to acknowledge assistance from the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney at the 2015 colloquium and excellent assistance from Georgia Lawrence Doyle in the History Department. We also thank Brill’s editors, in Boston, Jason Prevost and Gerda Danielsson Coe and Evelien van der Veer in Leiden and the editorial board of the Brill Series New Perspectives on the Cold War.
Judith Keene
Elizabeth Rechniewski
Sydney, 13 September 2017