Individual research projects

Cossack military violence - Moscow and Chicago - Union crisis policy - Russian New Social Media - Heritage discourses

Forschung

Projekte

Looking north from the building of the Board of Trade in the south of LaSalle Street, 1916. Photo: Chicago Daily News, LaSalle Street from old Chicago Board of Trade Building, public domain, details on Wikimedia Commons

Ambiguous Modernities
Moscow and Chicago (1890-1936)

Jan C. Behrends

Research project

The metropolitan Cities of Moscow and Chicago stood in many ways for their nations’ path to modernity. They were places of hope and despair, of reform and revolution, of violence and civility.

Violent men between the First World War, the Revolution and the Second World War (1905-1945): Cossack military violence under different regimes

Evgen Zinger

PhD Project
Project of the DFG Research Unit “Military Cultures of Violence-Illegitimate Military Violence from the Early Modern Period to the Second World War” (University Potsdam)

The project is dedicated to the study of illegitimate military violence by Cossack units in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the end of the Second World War. Apart from the conventional military historical investigations, this project aims to bring the Cossacks as perpetrators of violence within various military units to the forefront.

Public History in Russian New Social Media

Associated research project

The project aims at analysis of the Russian-language historical channels on Telegram and its comparison with historical channels on other Russian-language media platforms (primarily Vkontakte and Instagram). It will investigate how the languages and techniques of historical narratives change in different media platforms and analyze how much they have transformed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Heritage discourses in Russia

Associated research project

Aleksandr Rusanovs current research aims at analyzing official and unofficial discourses of heritage in contemporary Russia. He analyzes how the concepts of cultural heritage are interpreted and used by official state institutions and public memorial and conservation projects. Though both of them appeal to the international definitions of cultural heritage adopted by UNESCO, their interpretations and uses vary. In the project he explores a defining role that the concept of cultural heritage has in their discourses and practices.

Working the Crisis - Crisis Interpretations and Crisis Policies of Trade Unions in Germany and Great Britain

Ralf Hoffrogge

Post-Doc Project

The project at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum (ISB Bochum) was a sub-project in the Research Group "History of Left Politics in Germany Beyond Social Democracy and Party Communism", a cooperation between the ZZF Potsdam and the ISB Bochum from 2014-2018. At the ZZF Potsdam, it was headed by Professor Mario Keßler. Ralf Hoffrogge coordinated the doctoral program.

 

Individual research projects

Cossack military violence - Moscow and Chicago - Union crisis policy - Russian New Social Media - Heritage discourses

Forschung

Projekte

Looking north from the building of the Board of Trade in the south of LaSalle Street, 1916. Photo: Chicago Daily News, LaSalle Street from old Chicago Board of Trade Building, public domain, details on Wikimedia Commons

Ambiguous Modernities
Moscow and Chicago (1890-1936)

Jan C. Behrends

Research project

The metropolitan Cities of Moscow and Chicago stood in many ways for their nations’ path to modernity. They were places of hope and despair, of reform and revolution, of violence and civility.

Violent men between the First World War, the Revolution and the Second World War (1905-1945): Cossack military violence under different regimes

Evgen Zinger

PhD Project
Project of the DFG Research Unit “Military Cultures of Violence-Illegitimate Military Violence from the Early Modern Period to the Second World War” (University Potsdam)

The project is dedicated to the study of illegitimate military violence by Cossack units in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the end of the Second World War. Apart from the conventional military historical investigations, this project aims to bring the Cossacks as perpetrators of violence within various military units to the forefront.

Public History in Russian New Social Media

Associated research project

The project aims at analysis of the Russian-language historical channels on Telegram and its comparison with historical channels on other Russian-language media platforms (primarily Vkontakte and Instagram). It will investigate how the languages and techniques of historical narratives change in different media platforms and analyze how much they have transformed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Heritage discourses in Russia

Associated research project

Aleksandr Rusanovs current research aims at analyzing official and unofficial discourses of heritage in contemporary Russia. He analyzes how the concepts of cultural heritage are interpreted and used by official state institutions and public memorial and conservation projects. Though both of them appeal to the international definitions of cultural heritage adopted by UNESCO, their interpretations and uses vary. In the project he explores a defining role that the concept of cultural heritage has in their discourses and practices.

Working the Crisis - Crisis Interpretations and Crisis Policies of Trade Unions in Germany and Great Britain

Ralf Hoffrogge

Post-Doc Project

The project at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum (ISB Bochum) was a sub-project in the Research Group "History of Left Politics in Germany Beyond Social Democracy and Party Communism", a cooperation between the ZZF Potsdam and the ISB Bochum from 2014-2018. At the ZZF Potsdam, it was headed by Professor Mario Keßler. Ralf Hoffrogge coordinated the doctoral program.