Authors: Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Grace Huxford, Christoph Laucht, Jennifer Luff, Holger Nehring This is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2022), 87, (3), 277-312. Read more. This article is currently freely available.

Introduction: Peter Gurney on The Marginalization of History
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is having profound repercussions in Britain, not least on our cultural and intellectual life. However, although the media has presented this unfolding crisis in exhaustive detail, no one could reasonably argue that there has been much depth to the general treatment. The round table that follows is a modest contribution to opening up debate among historians and others about this vital subject. The five specialists on different aspects of the Cold War who have kindly contributed were given a very wide brief: they were asked to reflect on possible parallels between the current crisis and the earlier Cold War, whose end in the late 1980s seemed to inaugurate for a short while a new and more optimistic phase in international relations. It is hoped that similar round tables on echoes between past and present will appear in future issues of this journal.

Contributors

• Matthew Grant on Memory Problems: Framing the New Cold War
• Grace Huxford on (New) Cold War Nostalgia in Britain
• Christoph Laucht on The New Cold War: ‘A New Normal in European Security’?
• Jennifer Luff on The First International of the Global Right?
• Holger Nehring on War Times: Layers of History in Russia’s War against Ukraine

Read the full text of the roundtable here. This article is currently freely accessible.