Rethinking and Reforming the “Institute with a Totalitarian Regime”: ÚSTR and the Epistemic Capture of the Communist Past
This text was written in the form of a mock project proposal for the position of director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR). It is published here not as an application, but as a programmatic reflection on Czech memory politics, the institutional conditions of historical knowledge, and the uneasy relationship between history writing and the law.