Mircea Platon
Mircea Platon obtained his PhD in History at the Ohio State University in 2012. His research focuses on modernization discourses and drives in early-modern and modern Europe. He is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto.
Articles by Mircea Platon
Waiting for the Americans…
In the late 1970s, my grandfather’s older brother, already in his nineties, was pressing his almost deaf ears to a little portable radio still hoping to hear that “the Americans…
On Memories as a Starting Point: A Review of “Encounters” by Paul Gottfried
(An Eastern-European Reading). In a scene from a great movie called Transsiberian, a Russian traveler tells some innocent American tourists about the “Gulag” and the millions of people killed and…