Afterword. Decentring and Renarrating Europe (One More Time) Echoes of War (One More Time)

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Published: Jun 27, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.41286
Keywords:
historiography of Europe Decolonisation Eastern Europe Central Europe Russian-Ukrainian War Centres-peripheries Eurasia
Ada A. Dialla
Athens School of Fine Arts
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-9783
Abstract

This Afterword examines how the Russo-Ukrainian War and shifting geopolitics have reshaped historiography, particularly regarding Europe’s evolving borders, centres and peripheries. The war accelerated calls to decolonise Slavic, Russian and European studies, emphasising the agency of Ukraine. Ultimately, the war has reinvigorated debates about Europe’s identity, reminding scholars that Europe is not monolithic but a mosaic of shifting, intersecting regional, global and contested stories.

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Author Biography
Ada A. Dialla, Athens School of Fine Arts

Ada Dialla is Professor of European and Russian History at the Department of Theory and History of Art, School of Fine Arts (Athens). Her main research interests are 19th- and 20th-century Russian and European history. Her recent book, co-authored with Alexis Heraclides, is entitled Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century: Setting the Precedent (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), and her recent articles are: “Thinking Europe on Europe’s Margins: Alexander Sturdza, Konstantinos Oikonomos and Russian-Greek Orthodoxy in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Historical Review/La Revue Historique 16 (2020): 141–66, https://doi.org/10.12681/hr.22823 and “The Congress of Vienna, the Russian Empire and the Greek Revolution: Rethinking Legitimacy,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 39, no. 1 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2021.0002.

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