Evgenia LezinaWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Contact
Dr. Evgenia Lezina
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
office: Am Neuen Markt 9d, E.06
phone: 0331/74510-138
fax: 0331/74510-143
E-Mail: lezina [at] zzf-potsdam.de
Vita
since 2018
DFG project “The Soviet State Security’s Political and Power Resources. KGB Structures, Practices and Methods in the Last Decade of the Soviet Union” at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
since 2014
Senior Research Fellow / Associate Researcher at the Socio-Political Department, Analytical Centre of Yuri Levada (Levada Centre), Moscow
April to July 2017
Visiting researcher at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
April to September 2016
Visiting scholar at the Imre Kertész Kolleg at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
From June 2012 to December 2013
Visiting researcher at the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED-Dictatorship in Berlin (with a scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
From January to June 2008
Visiting researcher at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A.
2011 - 2012
Research project coordinator at the Levada Centre and the International Society “Memorial”, Moscow
2006 - 2010
Ph.D., Political Systems and Institutional Change
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
2004 - 2005
M.A., Political Science
University of Manchester / Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
Projects
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Research project
» zum Projekt
The research project will investigate the domestic security functions, methods and practices of the KGB in the last decade of its existence, relying mainly on two types of sources: the recently declassified state security archives in the former Soviet...
Publications
Books / Bücher
- XX vek: prorabotka proshlogo. Praktiki perekhodnogo pravosudiya i politika pamyati v byvshikh diktaturakh. Germania, Rossia, strany Tsentral’noi i Vostochnoi Evropy (XX Century: Working Through the Past. Transitional Justice Practices and the Politics of Memory in Former Dictatorships. Germany, Russia, Countries of Central and Eastern Europe) (Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021)
*Awarded with the book prize “Prosvetitel-2022” (Enlightener) in a special nomination “PolitProsvet” (Political Enlightenment) for the best publication dedicated to the “current socio-political process and helping to understand its essence” https://zzf-potsdam.de/de/news/evgenia-lezina-sachbuchpreis-prosvetitel-aufklarer-ausgezeichnet - Making an Enemy Out of Ukraine: How the Soviet KGB was Forging Anti-Nationalist Discourse Later Revived by Russian State Propaganda to Justify Aggression (forthcoming)
Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes / Artikel und Kapitel in Sammelbänden
- From Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police’s New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin Era,’ in Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State, edited by Immo Rebitschek and Aaron Benyamin Retish (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming in 2023).
- Dogma versus Progress. KGB Technological and Scientific (In-)capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s,’ in Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production: Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War, edited by Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger and Constantin Goschler (London: Routledge, 2022), 37–64.
- The Soviet State Security and the Regime of Secrecy: Guarding State Secrets and Political Control of Industrial Enterprises and Institutions in the Post-Stalin Era. Securitas Imperii 37, no. 2 (2020): 38–69.
- Rozliczanie przeszłości nazistowskiej w Niemczech Zachodnich: źródła ciągłości i zmiany w powojennej pamięci zbiorowej (Working Through the Nazi Past in West Germany: Sources of Continuity and Change of the Postwar Collective Memory), in: Wina i kara. Społeczeństwa wobec rozliczeń zbrodni popełnionych przez reżimy totalitarne w latach 1939–1956. Studia i materiały (Warszawa: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2015), 97–129.
- K probleme rossiiskoi natsional’noi identichnosti (On the Issue of Russian National Identity), in Puti Rossii. Novye iazyki sotsial’nogo opisaniia, edited by Marina Pugacheva and Vasily Zharkov (Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2014), 162–179.
Other Publications / Weitere Veröffentlichungen
- Die Angst Reagiert. Geheimdienste in Russland. Die Politische Meinung 577 (November/Dezember 2022): 33–38.
- Transformations of the Soviet State Security Bodies in Post-Soviet Russia, in Memory of Nations: Democratic Transition Guide (Prague: CEVRO, z.s., 2018), 7–17.
- In Spanish translation: Desmantelamiento del Aparato de Seguridad Estatal. Transformaciones de Los Cuerpos de Seguridad Del Estado Soviético en la Rusia Postsoviética, in Memoria de Naciones: Guía de Transición Democrática – La Experiencia Rusa (Prague: CEVRO, z.s., 2019), 7–16.
- Antisemitizm v Rossii: mneniya evreiskogo naseleniya (Anti-Semitism in Russia: Opinions of the Jewish Population). Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniya 127, no. 3-4 (2018): 66-110. (With Lev Gudkov, Natalia Zorkaya and Ekaterina Kochergina)
- Denatsifikatsiya Zapadnoi Germanii. 70 let s momenta zaversheniya programmy (Denazification of West Germany. 70 Years Since the Programme’s Completion). Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniya 127, no. 3-4 (2018): 193–207.
- The Revival of Ideology in Russia, Eurozine, 24 March 2017. https://www.eurozine.com/the-revival-of-ideology/
- VCHk i eye preyemniki: praktiki terrora i metody diskriminatsii (Cheka and its Successors: Terror Practices and Methods of Discrimination). Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniya 125, no. 3-4 (2017): 104–131.
- Gemischte Bilanz. Lustration in der Ukraine. Osteuropa 11-12 (2016): 75–90.
- Antisemitizm v strukture massovoyi ksenofobii v Rossii: negativnaya identichnost' i potentsial mobilizatsii (Anti-Semitism in the Structure of Mass Xenophobia in Russia: Negative Identity and the Potential for Mobilization). Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniya 122, no. 1–2 (2016): 140–197. (With Lev Gudkov, Natalia Zorkaya and Ekaterina Kochergina)
- Lyustratsiia i otkrytie arkhivov v stranakh Tsentral’noi i Vostochnoi Evropy (Lustration and Access to Archives in Central and Eastern Europe). Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniya 119, no. 1 (2015): 48–89.
- Rossiya i Evropa 2000–2015: rezul'taty sovmestnogo proyekta Levada-Tsentra i Fonda Fridrikha Naumanna (Russia and Europe in 2000–2015: Results of a Joint Project of the Levada Center and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation). Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniya 121, no. 3–4 (2015): 181–193. (With Natalia Zorkaya)
- “Memorial und seine Geschichte. Russlands historisches Gedächtnis.” Osteuropa 11-12 (2014): 165–177.
- Pamyat', identichnost', politicheskaya kul'tura i poslevoyennaya germanskaya demokratiya (Memory, Identity, Political Culture and Post-War German Democracy), Otechestvennyie zapiski 57, no. 6 (2013): 162–176.
- Yuridichesko-pravovaia prorabotka proshlogo GDR v ob’yedinennoi Germanii (Legal Instruments of Working Through the GDR Past in Unified Germany). Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniya 115, no. 2 (2013): 67–100.
- “Nedomyslennoe” raznomyslie postsovetskoi Rossii?, in Raznomyslie v SSSR i Rossii (1945–2008), edited by Boris Firsov (Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatel'stvo Evropeyskogo universiteta, 2010), 61–77.