Visually and conceptually, the issue is structured as an exhibition hall, where the halls are texts, and the exhibits are court records, personal files, political gestures and slow, almost viscous, processes of rethinking.
Cécile Veissier opens the issue with a study of denazification in West Germany, considering it as a theatrical production with several acts: the first is loud, with the spotlights of Nuremberg, the following ones are in the semi-darkness, where witnesses forget the texts, and judges avoid sharp corners. This reconstruction not only demonstrates how the new political scene of the FRG was formed, but also how old actors settled in its scenery - disguised, but still with the same roles.
Materials by Mikhail Minakov and Andrei Lavrukhin continue this chronology, shifting the focus from the German experience to the post-Soviet landscape - a space where the questions "who are we?" and "how did we get here?" sound simultaneously like a civil questionnaire and a philosophical performance.
In the section on the "colonization of the Komi people", Mordvin and Sami stories by Pavel Tereshkovich, the text acquires ethnographic depth, turning archival data into cultural artifacts. The reader finds himself in a room where the exhibition is not only documents, but also the voices of peoples whose experience of survival in the imperial system speaks for itself.
The entire issue is a media installation of memory: we move from fact to interpretation, from a specific person in an old photograph to a structural diagnosis of the era. And here the "non-Russian world" is not just a topic, but a curator's framework, allowing us to show that decolonization is not a one-time event, but a process that requires both an honest archive and a bold director's vision.