'Perestrelka: surviving the crime boom in Southern Ukraine, 1985-2000'
PhD project
within the framework of the ERC project "Perestroika from Below"
The project examines the grassroots social composition of the perestoika-era crime boom in Ukraine, paying particular attention to its effects on society, identity and politics. Using oral testimony and archive research to create in-depth studies of two cities, supported by broader primary and secondary research, it 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.
Francis Kirk
Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Potsdam
Am Neuer Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Office: Am Neuer Markt 9d, room 1.23
Phone: 0331/74510-114
Fax: 0331/74510-143
Email: francis.kirk [at] zzf-potsdam.de