The historical research network on violence after Stalinism is funded by the Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz e.V. (WGL). The project is hosted by the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF) in cooperation with the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg and the European University Institute in Florence.
The network investigates the relationship between physical violence and state legitimacy after Stalinism. It addresses the following questions: How did the party- state control violence after Stalin? How did political legitimation change after 1956? To what extent did physical violence disappear from politics? How was physical violence in the private sphere dealt with? Did these changes contribute to the decline of communism?
The project’s international research network is contributing to the debates about the nature of communist dictatorships, to the causes of the European revolutions of 1989 and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. Its aim is to strengthen international cooperation and support comparative and transnational research in the field of communist studies.
Conference Programme (pdf)
Conference Poster (pdf)
Auditorium, Jacob- und -Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
Humboldt University of Berlin
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3, Ground Floor
Berlin, Germany
Final Conference organised by the ZZF Potsdam
and funded by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Registration and Contact:
Please register before 13 February 2014 by sending an email to:
Stephanie Karmann
Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
eMail: karmann [at] zzf-pdm [dot] de
For further information please refer to the website of the group: www.physicalviolence.eu