Rethinking and Reforming the “Institute with a Totalitarian Regime”: ÚSTR and the Epistemic Capture of the Communist Past

Thistext was written in the form of a mock project proposal for theposition of director of the Institute for the Study of TotalitarianRegimes (ÚSTR).

It is published here not as an application, but as a programmaticreflection on Czech memory politics, the institutional conditions ofhistorical knowledge, and the uneasy relationship between historywriting and the law.