Legacies of Communism? Post‐Communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform, between Autocracy and Revolution

Interdisciplinary research network
Funded by a SAW-grant of the Leibniz Association
Coordination: Jan Claas Behrends, Juliane Fürst and Corinna Kuhr-Korolev

The interdisciplinary research network „Legacies of Communism“ with partners in six countries will be hosted by the ZZF in Potsdam. It will focus on historical research of the political and social development of Eastern Europe and the former USSR from late socialism to post-communism. The project will explore changes and continuities of political and social elites in post-communist countries across the 1989/1991 divide. It aims to better understand and interpret the rise of authoritarian rule in post-communist societies.

Projects worked on the interdisciplinary research network at the ZZF: Dr. Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Kateryna Chernii (PhD project is already completed), Maren Francke (PhD project).

To the Website of the Interdisciplinary research network "Legacies of Communism?" klick here.

Mitarbeiter:innen

Jan C. Behrends, Juliane Fürst

Projekte

Corinna Kuhr-Korolev

What keeps the show on the road?

Research project
of the Interdisciplinary Research Network "Legacies of Communism?
The 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. This assumption will be examined using the Russian museum system and museum professionals as a field of research. The project is part of the Interdisciplinary Research Network Legacies of Communism?

Maren Francke

A Liberal Project? Hungarian University Colleges Since Late Socialism

PhD project
of the Interdisciplinary Research Network "Legacies of Communism?"
To this day, the “Colleges of Advanced Studies” are considered the playground of the young elite in Hungary. The project explores the role of the colleges in the transition from late socialism to democracy.