Alena MaklakAssoziierte Doktorandin
Contact
Alena Maklak
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Email: maklak [at] zzf-pdm.de
Vita
since 2015
Associated Ph.D. candidate, Centre for contemporary history in Potsdam (Department I)
April 2011 -2014
Ph.D. candidate and member of the project “Physical violence and state legitimacy in late socialism”, Centre for contemporary history in Potsdam
Since 2010
Freelancer at Ex Oriente Lux Reisen for guiding educational trips to the Ukraine (Eastern Galicia, Bukovina, Crimea etc.), Berlin, Germany
2003 - 2010
Humboldt University, Free University, Modern History, East European Studies Program, Berlin, Germany
Title of qualification awarded: Magistra Artium
2007 - 2008
Indiana University at Bloomington, Department of History, graduate exchange program, Bloomington, USA
2005 - 2007
Assistant coordinator at Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, Department of the CIS countries, Berlin, Germany
2004 - 2006
Freelancer at Brandenburg Memorial Foundation, Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, Oranienburg, Germany
2001- 2002
Minsk State Linguistic University, Foreign Literature Program, Minsk, Belarus
Title of qualification awarded: M.A.
Spring term 2001, Spring term 2002
Instructor at Department of Foreign Literature of Minsk State Linguistic University, Minsk, Belarus
1996 - 2001
Minsk State Linguistic University, Modern Foreign Languages, Program Minsk, Belarus
Title of qualification awarded: B.A.
Projects
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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...
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Publications
"Dedovshchina on trial. Some evidence concerning the last Soviet generation of 'sons' and 'grandfathers'", in: Nationalities Papers. The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity 43 (2015/5), S. 682-699.