Juliane FürstLeiterin der Abteilung I
Contact
Dr. Juliane Fürst
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Office: Am Neuen Markt 9d, room 1.01
Phone: 0331/74510-117
Fax: 0331/74510-143
Email: fuerst [at] zzf-potsdam.de
Vita
Appointments
since 2018
Co-Head of Department I "Communism and Society"
2017 – 2018
Reader in Modern History
Department of History, University of Bristol
2012 – 2017
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History, University of Bristol
2007 – 2012
Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History, University of Bristol
2003 – 2007
Junior Research Fellow
St. John’s College, University of Oxford
2002 – 2003
Stipendiary Lecturer, Modern History
Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Academic Qualifications
2012
Senior Fellowship in Higher Academy of Education
1998 – 2003
PhD, Government Department, London School of Economics
Thesis Title "Stalin’s last Generation - Youth, State and Komsomol 1945-53"
1997 – 1998
MSc Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
London School of Economics
1994 – 1997
BA(Hon) Modern History (First Class)
Christ Church, University of Oxford
1992 – 1994
Study of Law and History
Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg
Projects
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Project
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Project duration: December 2022 - November 2025
Project funding: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01 - Twinning
Project leader: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius University) in close collaboration with: Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology (Lund... -
Research project
Historiography has assigned a very particular understanding to the perestroika project: it is perceived as enacted from above, hinging on the persona of Gorbachev, and a phenomenon to which people reacted rather than forced action upon. This project will...
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Interdisciplinary research network
funded by a SAW-grant of the Leibniz Association
Coordination: Jan Claas Behrends and Juliane FürstThe interdisciplinary research network „Legacies of Communism“ with partners in six countries will be hosted by the ZZF in...
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Completed research project
This project was devoted to a thorough exploration of the history of the hippie movement in the Soviet Union from the late sixties onwards. It payed particular attention to the place of hippies as an outsider community in the larger context of...
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Publications
Select Publications
Books:
Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2021), monograph
Cambridge History of Communism, Vol. III: Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective 1968 – present, Cambridge: CUP, 2017), edited with Silvio Pons and Mark Selden
Dropping out of Socialism: Alternative Cultures and Lifestyles in the Soviet Bloc (Lexington Books, 2017), edited volume with Josie McLellan
Stalin’s Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism (Oxford University Press, 2010), monograph
Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention (London: Routledge, 2006), edited volume
Articles and Chapters:
“Liberating Madness – Punishing Insanity: Soviet Hippies and the Politics of Craziness”, Journal of Contemporary History, Oktober 2018, Vol 53(4), 832-860.
“From the Maiak to the Psichodrom: How 1960s Counterculture came to Moscow”, in Martin Klimke et al, The Routledge Handbook of the global Sixties (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2018), 180-193.
with Stephen Bittner, “The Aging Pioneer: Late Soviet Socialist Society,
its Challenges and Challengers”, in Cambridge History of Communism, Vol. III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 279-290.
‘We all live in a Yellow Submarine: Life in a Leningrad Commune’, in Juliane Fürst and Josie McLellan (eds.), Dropping out of Socialism: Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc (New York, 2016), 179-207.
‘If You’re Going to Moscow, be Sure to Wear some Flowers in your Hair: The Soviet Hippie Sistema and Its Life in, Despite and with Stagnation’, in Dina Fainberg and Artemy Kalinovsky, Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era (New York, 2016), pp. 123-146.
‘The Difficult Process of Leaving a Place of Non-Belonging: Maxim Shrayer’s Memoir, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story’, Journal of Jewish Identities, Vol. 8, Nr. 2, July 2015, pp. 189-208.
‘Love, Peace and Rock’n Roll on Gorky Street: The ‘Emotional Style’ of the Soviet Hippie Community’, Contemporary European History, 23.4 (2014), pp. 565-587.
with John Davis ‘Drop-outs’ and with James Mark, Petr Oseka, Robert Gildea, Rebecca Clifford and Chris Reynolds ‘Spaces’ in Robert Gildea and Annette Warring (eds.), Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt, Oxford University Press, 2013, 164-192, 193-210.
‘Where did all the Normal People Go: Another Look at the Soviet 1970s”, review article, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Summer 2013, 621-640.
‘Born under the same Star: Refuseniks, Dissidents and Late Socialist Society’, in Yaacov Roi, (ed.), The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union, Washington DC, The Woodrow Wilson Centre Press, 2012, 137-163.
with Chris Reynolds and Petr Oseka, ‘Breaking the Walls of Privacy: How Rebellion came to the Street’, Special Issue on 1968, The Journal for Social and Cultural History (2012), 493-512.