Evgenia
 
Lezina
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Contact

Dr. Evgenia Lezina
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

office: Am Neuen Markt 9d, E.06
phone: 0331/74510-138
fax: 0331/74510-143

E-Mail: lezina [at] zzf-potsdam.de

Vita

since 2018

DFG project “The Soviet State Security’s Political and Power Resources. KGB Structures, Practices and Methods in the Last Decade of the Soviet Union” at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

 

since 2014

Senior Research Fellow / Associate Researcher at the Socio-Political Department, Analytical Centre of Yuri Levada (Levada Centre), Moscow

 

April to July 2017

Visiting researcher at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

 

April to September 2016

Visiting scholar at the Imre Kertész Kolleg at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

 

From June 2012 to December 2013

Visiting researcher at the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED-Dictatorship in Berlin (with a scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

 

From January to June 2008

Visiting researcher at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A.

 

2011 - 2012

Research project coordinator at the Levada Centre and the International Society “Memorial”, Moscow

 

2006 - 2010

Ph.D., Political Systems and Institutional Change

IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

 

2004 - 2005

M.A., Political Science

University of Manchester / Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

Projects

Publications

Books / Bücher

  • XX vek: prorabotka proshlogo. Praktiki perekhodnogo pravosudiia i politika pamiati v byvshikh diktaturakh. Germania, Rossia, strany Tsentral’noi i Vostochnoi Evropy (XX Century: Working Through the Past. Transitional Justice Practices and the Politics of Memory in Former Dictatorships. Germany, Russia, Countries of Central and Eastern Europe) (Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021). https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/liberal_ru/26259
    *Awarded with the book prize “Prosvetitel-2022” (Enlightener) in a special nomination “PolitProsvet” (Political Enlightenment) for the best publication dedicated to the “current socio-political process and helping to understand its essence” 
  • Making an Enemy Out of Ukraine: How the Soviet KGB Was Forging Anti-Nationalist Discourse Later Revived by Russian State Propaganda to Justify Aggression (forthcoming)

Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes / Artikel und Kapitel in Sammelbänden

  • From Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police’s New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin Era, in Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State, edited by Immo Rebitschek and Aaron Benyamin Retish (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023), 263–297.
  • Dogma versus Progress. KGB Technological and Scientific (In-)capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s, in Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production: Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War, edited by Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger and Constantin Goschler (London: Routledge, 2022), 37–64.
  • The Soviet State Security and the Regime of Secrecy: Guarding State Secrets and Political Control of Industrial Enterprises and Institutions in the Post-Stalin Era. Securitas Imperii 37, no. 2 (2020): 38–69.
  • Rozliczanie przeszłości nazistowskiej w Niemczech Zachodnich: źródła ciągłości i zmiany w powojennej pamięci zbiorowej (Working Through the Nazi Past in West Germany: Sources of Continuity and Change of the Postwar Collective Memory), in Wina i kara. Społeczeństwa wobec rozliczeń zbrodni popełnionych przez reżimy totalitarne w latach 1939–1956. Studia i materiały (Warszawa: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2015), 97–129.
  • K probleme rossiiskoi natsional’noi identichnosti (On the Issue of Russian National Identity), in Puti Rossii. Novie iazyki sotsial’nogo opisaniia, edited by Marina Pugacheva and Vasily Zharkov (Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2014), 162–179.

Other Publications / Weitere Veröffentlichungen

  • "Der Abfall der Sonderdienste“. Wie die Tschekisten Demokratisierung überstanden // Dekoder Specials "Der Anfang der Geschichte" 28.4.2023 https://specials.dekoder.org/anfang-der-geschichte/elitenkontinuitaet/
  • Die Angst Reagiert. Geheimdienste in Russland. Die Politische Meinung, no. 577 (November/Dezember 2022): 33–38.
  • Transformations of the Soviet State Security Bodies in Post-Soviet Russia, in Memory of Nations: Democratic Transition Guide (Prague: CEVRO, z.s., 2018), 7–17.
  • In Spanish translation: Desmantelamiento del Aparato de Seguridad Estatal. Transformaciones de Los Cuerpos de Seguridad Del Estado Soviético en la Rusia Postsoviética, in Memoria de Naciones: Guía de Transición Democrática – La Experiencia Rusa (Prague: CEVRO, z.s., 2019), 7–16.
  • Antisemitizm v Rossii: mneniia evreiskogo naseleniia (Anti-Semitism in Russia: Opinions of the Jewish Population). Public Opinion Herald 127, no. 3-4 (2018): 66-110. (With Lev Gudkov, Natalia Zorkaya and Ekaterina Kochergina)
  • Denatsifikatsiia Zapadnoi Germanii. 70 let s momenta zaversheniia programmy (Denazification of West Germany. 70 Years Since the Programme’s Completion). The Public Opinion Herald 127, no. 3-4 (2018): 193–207.
  • The Revival of Ideology in Russia. Eurozine, 24 March 2017. https://www.eurozine.com/the-revival-of-ideology/
  • VCHk i eie preiemniki: praktiki terrora i metody diskriminatsii (Cheka and its Successors: Terror Practices and Methods of Discrimination). The Public Opinion Herald 125, no. 3-4 (2017): 104–131.
  • Gemischte Bilanz. Lustration in der Ukraine. Osteuropa 11-12 (2016): 75–90.
  • Antisemitizm v strukture massovoyi ksenofobii v Rossii: negativnaia identichnost' i potentsial mobilizatsii (Anti-Semitism in the Structure of Mass Xenophobia in Russia: Negative Identity and the Potential for Mobilization). The Public Opinion Herald 122, no. 1–2 (2016): 140–197. (With Lev Gudkov, Natalia Zorkaya and Ekaterina Kochergina)
  • Liustratsiia i otkrytie arkhivov v stranakh Tsentral’noi i Vostochnoi Evropy (Lustration and Access to Archives in Central and Eastern Europe). The Public Opinion Herald 119, no. 1 (2015): 48–89.
  • Rossiia i Evropa 2000–2015: rezul'taty sovmestnogo proiekta Levada-Tsentra i Fonda Fridrikha Naumanna (Russia and Europe in 2000–2015: Results of a Joint Project of the Levada Center and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation). The Public Opinion Herald 121, no. 3–4 (2015): 181–193. (With Natalia Zorkaya)
  • Memorial und seine Geschichte. Russlands historisches Gedächtnis. Osteuropa 11-12 (2014): 165–177.
  • Pamiat', identichnost', politicheskaia kul'tura i poslevoiennaya germanskaia demokratiia (Memory, Identity, Political Culture and Post-War German Democracy), Otechestvennyie zapiski 57, no. 6 (2013): 162–176.
  • Iuridichesko-pravovaia prorabotka proshlogo GDR v ob’iedinennoi Germanii (Legal Instruments of Working Through the GDR Past in Unified Germany). The Public Opinion Herald 115, no. 2 (2013): 67–100.
  • Transformatsiia politicheskoi kul'tury v posttotalitarnykh obshchestvakh: postsovetskaia Rossiia i poslevoiennaia FRG v sravnitel'noi perspektive (Transformation of Political Culture in Post-Totalitarian Societies: Post-Soviet Russia and Post-War Germany in a Comparative Perspective). The Public Opinion Herald 111, no. 1 (2012): 32–63.
  • Nedomyslennoe’ raznomyslie postsovetskoi Rossii?, in Raznomyslie v SSSR i Rossii (1945–2008), edited by Boris Firsov (Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatel'stvo Evropeiskogo universiteta, 2010), 61–77.