Dr. Evgenia Lezina

Books / Bücher

• XX vek: prorabotka proshlogo. Praktiki perekhodnogo pravosudiia i politika pamiati 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). https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/liberal_ru/26259
  *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” 
• 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, 2023), 263–297.
• 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. Novie iazyki sotsial’nogo opisaniia, edited by Marina Pugacheva and Vasily Zharkov (Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2014), 162–179.

Other Publications / Weitere Veröffentlichungen

• "Der Abfall der Sonderdienste“. Wie die Tschekisten Demokratisierung überstanden // Dekoder Specials "Der Anfang der Geschichte" 28.4.2023 https://specials.dekoder.org/anfang-der-geschichte/elitenkontinuitaet/
• Die Angst Reagiert. Geheimdienste in Russland. Die Politische Meinung, no. 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: mneniia evreiskogo naseleniia (Anti-Semitism in Russia: Opinions of the Jewish Population). Public Opinion Herald 127, no. 3-4 (2018): 66-110. (With Lev Gudkov, Natalia Zorkaya and Ekaterina Kochergina)
• Denatsifikatsiia Zapadnoi Germanii. 70 let s momenta zaversheniia programmy (Denazification of West Germany. 70 Years Since the Programme’s Completion). The Public Opinion Herald 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 eie preiemniki: praktiki terrora i metody diskriminatsii (Cheka and its Successors: Terror Practices and Methods of Discrimination). The Public Opinion Herald 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: negativnaia identichnost' i potentsial mobilizatsii (Anti-Semitism in the Structure of Mass Xenophobia in Russia: Negative Identity and the Potential for Mobilization). The Public Opinion Herald 122, no. 1–2 (2016): 140–197. (With Lev Gudkov, Natalia Zorkaya and Ekaterina Kochergina)
• Liustratsiia i otkrytie arkhivov v stranakh Tsentral’noi i Vostochnoi Evropy (Lustration and Access to Archives in Central and Eastern Europe). The Public Opinion Herald 119, no. 1 (2015): 48–89.
• Rossiia i Evropa 2000–2015: rezul'taty sovmestnogo proiekta 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). The Public Opinion Herald 121, no. 3–4 (2015): 181–193. (With Natalia Zorkaya)
• Memorial und seine Geschichte. Russlands historisches Gedächtnis. Osteuropa 11-12 (2014): 165–177.
• Pamiat', identichnost', politicheskaia kul'tura i poslevoiennaya germanskaia demokratiia (Memory, Identity, Political Culture and Post-War German Democracy), Otechestvennyie zapiski 57, no. 6 (2013): 162–176.
• Iuridichesko-pravovaia prorabotka proshlogo GDR v ob’iedinennoi Germanii (Legal Instruments of Working Through the GDR Past in Unified Germany). The Public Opinion Herald 115, no. 2 (2013): 67–100.
• Transformatsiia politicheskoi kul'tury v posttotalitarnykh obshchestvakh: postsovetskaia Rossiia i poslevoiennaia FRG v sravnitel'noi perspektive (Transformation of Political Culture in Post-Totalitarian Societies: Post-Soviet Russia and Post-War Germany in a Comparative Perspective). The Public Opinion Herald 111, no. 1 (2012): 32–63.
• Nedomyslennoe’ raznomyslie postsovetskoi Rossii?, in Raznomyslie v SSSR i Rossii (1945–2008), edited by Boris Firsov (Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatel'stvo Evropeiskogo universiteta, 2010), 61–77.