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Tr@nsit Online

Tr@nsit was the online sister journal of Transit, published until 2017. Here, authors, fellows and friends of the IWM offered further articles, reflections and comments related to ongoing research and debates at the Institute.

	Title	Author
	On Time	Krzysztof Pomian	Read more	Authors: Krzysztof Pomian Published: , On Time Students must not die before their teachers. Krzysztof Michalski was my student at Warsaw University for two years, between 1966 and 1968, and he wanted me to supervise his master’s thesis. Read more

	Self-Reflection Through the Visual: Notes on Some Maidan Documentaries	Yustyna Kravchuk	Read more	Authors: Yustyna Kravchuk Published: , Self-Reflection Through the Visual: Notes on Some Maidan Documentaries Read more

	In Searching for the Hidden History of 1989	Rainer Gries	Read more	Authors: Rainer Gries Published: , In Searching for the Hidden History of 1989 On June 15-16, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) organized, in cooperation with the Jena Center of 20th Century History, the Institute of Political Science at the Vienna University and the Renner Institut, an international conference on revisiting the pre-1989 visions of the much-awaited Read more
Authors: Rainer Gries Published: , In Searching for the Hidden History of 1989 On June 15-16, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) organized, in cooperation with the Jena Center of 20th Century History, the Institute of Political Science at the Vienna University and the Renner Institut, an international conference on revisiting the pre-1989 visions of the much-awaited Read more
	Ein Zeitalter wird besichtigt. 1989 revisited – Ergänzende Beiträge zu Heft 50	Transit	Read more	Authors: Transit Published: , Ein Zeitalter wird besichtigt. 1989 revisited – Ergänzende Beiträge zu Heft 50 Read more

	Obama and the Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?	Katherine S. Newman	Read more	Authors: Katherine S. Newman Published: , Obama and the Crisis: What Does the Future Hold? This is not an unprecedented turn of events. When we look backwards at previous financial crises in the U.S., especially those that were accompanied by extreme inequality, we see a familiar pattern. Read more

	Entre la mémoire et l’histoire	Paul Ricoeur	Read more	Authors: Paul Ricoeur Published: , Entre la mémoire et l’histoire Mon approche à son tour n’est que l’une de celles qui ont marqué l’épistémologie de la connaissance historique après le déclin de l’hegelianisme. Read more

	Citizen and Patriot in the Post-Totalitarian Era: Czech Dissidence in Search of the Nation and its Democratic Future		Read more	Authors: Published: , Citizen and Patriot in the Post-Totalitarian Era: Czech Dissidence in Search of the Nation and its Democratic Future The negotiated revolutions of 1989 in East Central Europe realized most of the fundamental requirements and expectations of democratization movements. Read more

	Les nouvelles technologies	Michel Serres	Read more	Authors: Michel Serres Published: , Les nouvelles technologies Or, nous autres, hommes, ajoutâmes à ces performances, purement physiologiques ou physiques, une panoplie d’artefacts destinés à relayer notre corps dans ses activités de communication; cet arsenal de messageries et de sémaphores varia par le cours de l’histoire. Read more
Authors: Michel Serres Published: , Les nouvelles technologies Or, nous autres, hommes, ajoutâmes à ces performances, purement physiologiques ou physiques, une panoplie d’artefacts destinés à relayer notre corps dans ses activités de communication; cet arsenal de messageries et de sémaphores varia par le cours de l’histoire. Read more
	Crisis in Ukraine: A Historian’s Perspective	Roman Szporluk	Read more	Authors: Roman Szporluk Published: , Crisis in Ukraine: A Historian’s Perspective Two years later, in August 1991, the parliament of Soviet Ukraine issued a declaration of independence and in the following December, that declaration was ratified by popular vote. Read more

	The Twilight of the Post-Soviet Space	Bruce P. Jackson	Read more	Authors: Bruce P. Jackson Published: , The Twilight of the Post-Soviet Space An accurate interpretation, such as George Kennan’s famous analysis of the “Sources of Soviet Conduct” (1947), is no guarantee of wise and effective policy, but it should give policymakers some decent options. Read more