title: The Looking Glass War: Russian Aggression against Ukraine and the Lessons of World War II in International Memory Politics
abstract: When I use a word, ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ' it means just what I choose it to mean -neither more nor less.' ' The question is, ' said Alice, ' whether you can make words mean so many different things.' ' The question is, ' said Humpty Dumpty, ' which is to be master -that ' s all.'In a similar vein, as Timothy Snyder has pithily put, Putin ' s Russia has embodied fascism while claiming to fi ght it in Ukraine, and Russians have possibly committed 9 See, eg, J Habermas , 