Europast - Perestroika from Below - Hippies in the Soviet Union - Gewalt in der Sowjetarmee - KGB in the Last Decade of the Soviet Union - Russia from Brezhnew to Putin - Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism? (Project-Website: https://legacies-of-communism.eu/)
Project
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 University), C²DH (University of Luxembourg), ZZF Potsdam
Research project
of the Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism? Post‐Communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform, between Autocracy and Revolution
The research project is based on the hypothesis of existing continuities from the Soviet to today’s Russian society. This seems to be especially true for the continuing existence of elites and networks, for the way these networks operate, and for specific values that ensure the persistent existence of such networks.
PhD project
within the framework of the ERC project "Perestroika from Below"
The project hopes to yield insights that will advance our understanding of modern Ukraine, organised crime as a social phenomenon, and the USSR's twilight years as viewed from below.
Three soldiers from the Soviet army's Tamanskaya Division, an Azerbaijani, a Mongolian and a Russian, stand beside one another to show the ethnic diversity of their army. Foto: JO1(SW) Joe Bartlett, Soldiers of the Tamanskaya Division, marked as public domain, Details on Wikimedia Commons.
Associated PhD project
The aim of my research project is to investigate the experiences of the young men serving in the Soviet armed forces in the late socialist period. A special emphasis is placed on the barrack violence that expanded increasingly throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
PhD project
Through analysis of comic routines and performances of the most influential Soviet and post-Soviet Russian comedians, the project aims to trace the continuity and breaks in the evolution of Russian language verbal comedy over the past 80 years.
Associated PhD project
of the Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism? Post‐Communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform, between Autocracy and Revolution
The research project explores the role of the colleges in the transition from late socialism to democracy. Particular attention is paid to three fields of interest: 1. the family-like life and the resulting tightly knit personal networks; 2. the hybrid character of traditions of Hungarian and international institutions of elite education; 3. the interaction with populist and illiberal discourses in a liberal-democratic environment.
Museum of Political History of Russia Saint Petersburg 2019
Research project
within the framework of the ERC project "Perestroika from Below"
This project will take a look at the transformation of the Soviet museum system through the lens of different former Soviet republics: Estonia, Latvia, Uzbekistan and Russia (specifically Leningrad/St. Petersburg).
The last Soviet troop column crosses the Soviet border after leaving Afghanistan, 1 october 1989. Photo: RIA Novosti archive, image #58833 / A. Solomonov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, RIAN archive 58833 Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, CC BY-SA 3.0
Research project
Violence after Stalinism is the theme of this research project. Using the dichotomy of violence and civility, it seeks to develop a better understanding of the transformation of Russian society from the late Brezhnev era into the present.
PhD project
in the ERC project “Perestroika from Below”
Through oral testimonies with baqsy (Tengrist and Kazakh shamans) and Kumalakshi (Tengrist and Kazakh Fortune Tellers) across Kazakhstan, archival research and media analysis, this project will piece together the rise of Tengrism as a part of modern Kazakh identity along with understanding the context of different religions in the Soviet Union.
Players of the Dynamo Kyiv football club with their coach Valery Lobanovsky, Kyiv, May 1998. Photo: Central State Film-photo-phono-archives of Ukraine, Unit.reg: 0-228252.
Associated PhD project
of the Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism? Post‐Communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform, between Autocracy and Revolution
During the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian football not only inherited its glorious sport accomplishments but also legacies of the Soviet football organization, which reflected on a small scale the entire image of post-communist Ukraine on the way to transformation. This research will examine the transformation process in Ukraine using football and its elites as an example.
PhD project
This project investigates the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine by examining individual violent actors during their deployment and the environments that produced them. In particular, it focuses on Russian rank-and-file soldiers and officers.
Research project
Funded by the German Research Foundation (2018 - 2024)
With a focus on the Soviet secret police in the period beginning with the end of the Brezhnev’s rule through Gorbachev’s perestroika until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the project will explore the routine of the KGB’s work, as well as the mechanisms and instruments of social control that directly or indirectly affected “average” Soviet citizens in the course of everyday life
PhD project
This thesis posits the intersection of different study fields: Internet studies, Literary studies, Media studies, and cultural research. The main question of the research is, following Foucault, what is an author?
Research project
The project will analyze and make known the hitherto unexplored history, nature and ideology of various independent and grassroots peace initiatives in the Soviet Union and their transnational contacts.
Project
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 University), C²DH (University of Luxembourg), ZZF Potsdam
The three-year project researches, if public history strengthen social cohesion, resilience and democracy. The scholars will explore the theory and practice of engaging citizens in the co-production and communication of the past in a digital age.
Section of the project website Legacies of Communism?, 26.08.2019
Interdisciplinary research network
funded by a SAW-grant of the Leibniz Association
Coordination: Jan Claas Behrends and Juliane Fürst
The interdisciplinary research network „Legacies of Communism“ with partners in six countries will be hosted by the ZZF in Potsdam.
St. Petersburg, 1993: sale from a truck (Photo: Katharina Kucher)
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 instead look at “perestroika from below”.
Europast - Perestroika from Below - Hippies in the Soviet Union - Gewalt in der Sowjetarmee - KGB in the Last Decade of the Soviet Union - Russia from Brezhnew to Putin - Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism? (Project-Website: https://legacies-of-communism.eu/)
Project
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 University), C²DH (University of Luxembourg), ZZF Potsdam
Research project
of the Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism? Post‐Communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform, between Autocracy and Revolution
The research project is based on the hypothesis of existing continuities from the Soviet to today’s Russian society. This seems to be especially true for the continuing existence of elites and networks, for the way these networks operate, and for specific values that ensure the persistent existence of such networks.
PhD project
within the framework of the ERC project "Perestroika from Below"
The project hopes to yield insights that will advance our understanding of modern Ukraine, organised crime as a social phenomenon, and the USSR's twilight years as viewed from below.
Three soldiers from the Soviet army's Tamanskaya Division, an Azerbaijani, a Mongolian and a Russian, stand beside one another to show the ethnic diversity of their army. Foto: JO1(SW) Joe Bartlett, Soldiers of the Tamanskaya Division, marked as public domain, Details on Wikimedia Commons.
Associated PhD project
The aim of my research project is to investigate the experiences of the young men serving in the Soviet armed forces in the late socialist period. A special emphasis is placed on the barrack violence that expanded increasingly throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
PhD project
Through analysis of comic routines and performances of the most influential Soviet and post-Soviet Russian comedians, the project aims to trace the continuity and breaks in the evolution of Russian language verbal comedy over the past 80 years.
Associated PhD project
of the Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism? Post‐Communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform, between Autocracy and Revolution
The research project explores the role of the colleges in the transition from late socialism to democracy. Particular attention is paid to three fields of interest: 1. the family-like life and the resulting tightly knit personal networks; 2. the hybrid character of traditions of Hungarian and international institutions of elite education; 3. the interaction with populist and illiberal discourses in a liberal-democratic environment.
Museum of Political History of Russia Saint Petersburg 2019
Research project
within the framework of the ERC project "Perestroika from Below"
This project will take a look at the transformation of the Soviet museum system through the lens of different former Soviet republics: Estonia, Latvia, Uzbekistan and Russia (specifically Leningrad/St. Petersburg).
The last Soviet troop column crosses the Soviet border after leaving Afghanistan, 1 october 1989. Photo: RIA Novosti archive, image #58833 / A. Solomonov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, RIAN archive 58833 Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, CC BY-SA 3.0
Research project
Violence after Stalinism is the theme of this research project. Using the dichotomy of violence and civility, it seeks to develop a better understanding of the transformation of Russian society from the late Brezhnev era into the present.
PhD project
in the ERC project “Perestroika from Below”
Through oral testimonies with baqsy (Tengrist and Kazakh shamans) and Kumalakshi (Tengrist and Kazakh Fortune Tellers) across Kazakhstan, archival research and media analysis, this project will piece together the rise of Tengrism as a part of modern Kazakh identity along with understanding the context of different religions in the Soviet Union.
Players of the Dynamo Kyiv football club with their coach Valery Lobanovsky, Kyiv, May 1998. Photo: Central State Film-photo-phono-archives of Ukraine, Unit.reg: 0-228252.
Associated PhD project
of the Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism? Post‐Communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform, between Autocracy and Revolution
During the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian football not only inherited its glorious sport accomplishments but also legacies of the Soviet football organization, which reflected on a small scale the entire image of post-communist Ukraine on the way to transformation. This research will examine the transformation process in Ukraine using football and its elites as an example.
PhD project
This project investigates the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine by examining individual violent actors during their deployment and the environments that produced them. In particular, it focuses on Russian rank-and-file soldiers and officers.
Research project
Funded by the German Research Foundation (2018 - 2024)
With a focus on the Soviet secret police in the period beginning with the end of the Brezhnev’s rule through Gorbachev’s perestroika until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the project will explore the routine of the KGB’s work, as well as the mechanisms and instruments of social control that directly or indirectly affected “average” Soviet citizens in the course of everyday life
PhD project
This thesis posits the intersection of different study fields: Internet studies, Literary studies, Media studies, and cultural research. The main question of the research is, following Foucault, what is an author?
Research project
The project will analyze and make known the hitherto unexplored history, nature and ideology of various independent and grassroots peace initiatives in the Soviet Union and their transnational contacts.
Project
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 University), C²DH (University of Luxembourg), ZZF Potsdam
The three-year project researches, if public history strengthen social cohesion, resilience and democracy. The scholars will explore the theory and practice of engaging citizens in the co-production and communication of the past in a digital age.
Section of the project website Legacies of Communism?, 26.08.2019
Interdisciplinary research network
funded by a SAW-grant of the Leibniz Association
Coordination: Jan Claas Behrends and Juliane Fürst
The interdisciplinary research network „Legacies of Communism“ with partners in six countries will be hosted by the ZZF in Potsdam.
St. Petersburg, 1993: sale from a truck (Photo: Katharina Kucher)
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 instead look at “perestroika from below”.
