SUMMARY:

This is an invitation to the forum “Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine.” Russia’s war against Ukraine has made the political role of academic history blatantly obvious, particularly given that false historical speculations have served as Russia’s sole substantiation for the war. AI’s editors have invited fellow historians to review the state of the field from the vantage point of the ongoing war, on several planes, particularly from the perspectives of global, European, and imperial histories.