This project is funded by an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) held by Juliane Fürst as Principal Investigator. It aims to explore Soviet people’s thoughts, feelings and actions during the ‘long’ Perestroika of the 1980s and 90s.
Vita Juliane Fürst
Appointments
since 2018
Co-Head of Department I "Communism and Society"
The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History - ZZF Potsdam
2017 – 2018
Reader in Modern History
Department of History, University of Bristol
2012 – 2017
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History, University of Bristol
2007 – 2012
Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History, University of Bristol
2003 – 2007
Junior Research Fellow
St. John’s College, University of Oxford
2002 – 2003
Stipendiary Lecturer, Modern History
Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Academic Qualifications
2012
Senior Fellowship in Higher Academy of Education
1998 – 2003
PhD, Government Department, London School of Economics
Thesis Title "Stalin’s last Generation - Youth, State and Komsomol 1945-53"
1997 – 1998
MSc Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
London School of Economics
1994 – 1997
BA(Hon) Modern History (First Class)
Christ Church, University of Oxford
1992 – 1994
Study of Law and History
Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg
Vita Corinna Kuhr-Korolev
Since 8/2022
Research associate at the ERC-Project “Perestroika from Below”
5/2019 - 7/2022
Research associate at the ZZF, project “Legacies of Communism. Post-communist Europe from Stagnation to Reform and between Autocracy and Revolution”
2015 - 2018
Research associate and curator at the Museum of Military History, Dresden exhibition and book project: "Clash of Futures. Myths of Nations. 1914-1945 "
2012 - 2014
Research associate at the Kulturstiftung der Länder, Berlin, project: "Russian Museums in the Second World War"
2009 - 2012
Research associate at the Ruhr University Bochum, project: "Conceptions of justice and power in Russia since the 1980s"
2006 - 2009
Research associate at the German Historical Institute Moscow
2002 – 2004
Representative of the German-Russian Forum e.V. in the German Embassy Moscow
2002
PhD theses "Gezähmte Helden – Die Formierung der Sowjetjugend 1917-1932"
1995 - 2000
Research associate at the institute for East European History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and at the Philipps University Marburg
1994 - 1995
Event-and project manager, German-Russian Forum e.V., Bonn
1986 - 1994
Studies of Eastern European History, Slavic Studies and Political Science in Bonn, Cologne and Moscow
Vita Irina Gordeeva
since 8/2022
Research associate at ZZF Potsdam in Dep. I
08/2020 - 07/2022
Associated researcher at ZZF Potsdam in Dep. I
Appointments
2017 - Lecturer in the Chair of History, St. Philarets’ Christian Orthodox Institute, Moscow, Russia
2013-2017 – Lecturer in Dept. of Medieval and Modern Russian History, Institute for History and Archives, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
2000-2013 - Lecturer in Dept. of Russian History of Modern period, Institute for History and Archives, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Academic Qualifications
1997-2000Ph.D., Dept. of Russian History of Modern period, Institute for History and Archives, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia, Thesis Title “The Communitarian Movement in Russia in the last quarter of the 19th century”
1994 -1996 Moscow Social History Program of the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
1992 - 1997 MA in History and Archives, Institute for History and Archives, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Vita Francis Kirk
Since 01/2023
Research assistant / doctoral student at the ZZF, Dept. I, in the ERC project “Perestroika from Below” (funded by the European Union), Potsdam
02/2022-12/2022
Editor-in-Chief at R.Politik
10/2022-12/2022
Junior Strategist at M&C Saatchi World Services, London
9/2021-9/2022
Freelance teacher, Moscow and London
9/2021-3/2022
Studied Post-Soviet Public Policy at Moscow State University/MGIMO
6/2020-8/2021
Teacher at Carfax Education, Moscow
8/2019-8/2020
Graduate Boarding Assistant at Letovo School, Moscow
9/2018-8/2019
MA in War Studies, King's College London
9/2013-7/2016
BA in History from Durham University
Vita Margarita Pavlova
Academic Career
since 1.11.2022
Administrative Assistant in ERC Projekt "Perestroika from Below: Participation, Subjectivities, and Emotional Communities across ‘The End of History’, 1980-2000", under the supervision of PD Dr. Juliane Fürst, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History.
07.2022 – 12.2022
Editorial Assistant of the Journal of East Central European Studies / Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe. Marburg, Germany.
02.2021 – 12.2022
Editorial Team Member of On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture. Gießen, Germany.
09.2016 – 03.2018
Teaching Assistant on the courses “Political Projects of the Twentieth Century”, and “Antiquity and Byzantium”, Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg.
09.2015 – 06.2018
Research Assistant at the Center for Historical Research, Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg.
Academic Qualifications
since 11.2020
Ph.D. Student at Justus Liebig University, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Giessen, Germany.
2018 – 2020
Master of Arts in Comparative History: From 1500 To Present Time (with distinction). Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
2014 – 2018
Bachelor of Arts in History (with distinction). National Research University "Higher School of Economics" in Saint Petersburg. St. Petersburg School of Sciences and Humanities, Russia.
Vita Ksenia Poluektova-Krimer
June 2019 – present
Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, SEFER Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization
Apr 2011 – present
Lecturer in English, History, Academic Writing, London Gates Education Group, Moscow, Russia
Sept 2010 – Dec 2012
Lecturer in Holocaust Studies and Jewish Historiography, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Jan 2017 – present
Translator and historical consultant, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia
Jan 2019 – Dec 2021
Translator and editor, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
Apr 2014 – present
Translator and editor, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Nov 2016 – present
Translator and editor, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Moscow, Russia
Nov 2008 – Feb 2010
Post-graduate researcher for a Frankel Center for Judaic Studies research project (prof. Zvi Gitelman) at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
Sep 2007 – Jan 2008
Research Fellow at Collegium Budapest with the collected volume project The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe
Sep 2005 – Dec 2006
Festival program coordinator, catalogue editor, Verzio 3 Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, researcher, OSA Archivum, Budapest, Hungary
June 2006 – Aug 2006
Dorot graduate research fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., USA
Academic Qualifications
Nov 2008 – Nov 2009
Post-doctorate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Sep 2001 – Sep 2008
Ph.D. in History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Sep 2003 – Dec 2007
MA in Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Sep 2000 – June 2001
MA in Nationalism Studies with specialization in Jewish Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Sep 1996 – June 2000
Joint BA Program in English, French and Communications, Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia and University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, USA
Abigail Scripka
1 August 2023
Research Associate / Doctoral Candidate at the ZZF, Dept. I, in the ERC project “Perestroika from Below” (funded by the European Union), Potsdam
2023 – Present
Editor and Translator for Novastan
2022 – Present
Freelance translator and editor
2022
Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison
2021 – 2022
UNESCO Culture Sector Volunteer in Almaty, Kazakhstan
2021
Central Asia Barometer Research Intern in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2021
Central Eurasian Summer Studies Institute for Beginner's Kazakh in Madison, Wisconsin
2020 – 2022
International Master in Central, Eastern European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, (Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree Programme)
IntM in Central, Eastern European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Glasgow
Master in Political Science, University of Tartu
Master in International Relations, KIMEP University
2019 – 2020
Fulbright English Language Teaching Assistant in Šalčininkai, Lithuania
2019
Summer Language Workshop for Beginner's Lithuanian in Bloomington, Indiana
2018
U.S. Embassy Tashkent Public Affairs Intern in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2017 – 2018
Exchange Student at Saint Petersburg State University Political Science Faculty in St. Petersburg, Russia.
2017
U.S. Embassy Astana Public Affairs Intern in Astana, Kazakhstan
2015 – 2019
B.A. in International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
B.A. in Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington
Dr. Franziska Davies
Academic Positions
Since Oct. 2016
Assistant Professor of Eastern European History (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit) at the Department of Eastern and Southeastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Oct. 2009–Sept. 2016
Junior lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Eastern and Southeastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Academic Qualifications
July 2016
Dr. phil. in Eastern European History (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, summa cum laude).
Title of dissertation: “Muslims in the Russian Army, 1874-1917”.
July 2009
Magister Artium in Eastern- and Southeastern European History, Medieval History and Philosophy (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).
Fellowships
Oct. 2021–August 2022
Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute (DHI) Warsaw.
March 2019
Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute (DHI) London.
April 2011–March 2012
Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute (DHI) Moscow.