The KARAGODIN Investigation (KARAGODIN.ORG) is examined by historian Ivan Kurilla* as an example of ‘the past as action’ in his book The Battle for the Past: How Politics Rewrites History.

This text is a chapter from Ivan Kurilla’s book in which he discusses the Karagodin Investigation project. In the book, the project and its author, Denis Karagodin, are placed in the section ‘The Past as Action’. Kurilla shows that Denis Karagodin’s project has a deep system-forming, institutional character, with far-reaching institutional implications for Russian society.

The full text is published with the author’s permission.

The Battle for the Past
How Politics Rewrites History by Ivan Kurilla

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