With authority and skill … McGlynn gives what now ranks as the most reliable, up-to-date account of the use and misuse of history and memory in post-Soviet Russia.

Tony Barber, Financial Times

McGlynn presents a powerful and disturbing case that the invasion had a convincing historical logic to it, for Vladimir Putin and for Russians more generally. . . . As if to prove McGlynn's point, historically based justifications for Russian policy and alleged plots by the West form terrifyingly explicit parts of Russia's most recent National Security Strategy. Her insightful and creative analysis suggests that we are in for a long conflict not just over the fate of Ukraine, but also over how differing memories of the past will continue to shape the future.

Washington Post

McGlynn's informative study of Russia's “memory wars” shows just how easily performance, media narratives and cultural priming can slip into real violence.

Bradley A. Gorski, Times Literary Supplement

Memory Makers makes for fascinating reading … [It] should be required reading for anyone wishing to engage in Russian politics, scholars, journalists, policy-makers alike.

Usman Butt, Middle East Monitor

Pithy and tightly argued.

Christopher Silvester, The Critic

Scholarly, revelatory and deeply unsettling … Dr McGlynn's brilliant, remorseless study inculpates almost the entire Russian nation.

Allan Mallinson, Country Life