Finished PhD-Projects 

European Views of Soviet Justice (1922-1938): National Interests and Transnational Debates
Dr. Anna Shapovalova


Polish underground mail and its stamps in the Republic of Poland of the 1980s
Silke Plate

Models of Opposition in the late Soviet Union: The Confederacy of Anarcho-Syndicalists (CAS) and its Predecessor Organizations
Evgenyj Kasakov
 

Soviet Opposition in Detention: Prison and Camp Experiences of Soviet Dissenters, 1956-1987
Manuela Putz - Publication in german language.


Kolyma after the GULAG. De-Stalinization in the Magadan region, 1953-1960
Miriam Sprau - Publication in german language


Belief and Obstinacy. Russian Orthodox Popular Piety in the Soviet Union, 1941 to 1964
Ulrike Huhn - ​Publication in german language


Censorship of Soviet Prose in the GDR in the 1970ies and 1980ies
Ann-Kathrin Reichhardt - Publication in german language

 
Photography as Practice of Subversion. The Works of Czech Dissident Ivan Kyncl in the 1970ies 
Heidrun Hamersky - Publication in german language


New Music at Institutions of Higher Learning in the GDR in the 1960ies 
Inga Blanke - Publication in german language  


 

Finished Research Projects

Comparing Protest Actions in Soviet and post-Soviet spaces
​Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines and Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg, Duration: 2016-2023

Brezhnev - A Biography
Prof. Susanne Schattenberg  - Publication in german and russian language
 

Points of View. The Personal Opinions of the Central Committee Members and their Influence on the Domestic and Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union, 1964-1985.
Dr Nikolay Mitrokhin
 

Shared Discourses: The discussion of Polish-Lithuanian relations within the official and oppositional spheres of the People's Republic of Poland and the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
Dr Rüdiger Ritter

"The Other Europe". Dissent in Politics and Society and Alternative Culture. Contributions to a Comparative Analysis in Contemporary History. (information in german language)
Research Association, funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation. Duration: 2007-2009


The Gulag in Memory. Seeking traces in Perm Region. (information in german language)
Funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, Head of project: Manuela Putz, duration: 2009


The World of the Others - Photographs of Dissenters in Eastern Europe. (publication in german language)
Head of project: Heidrun Hamersky, Duration 2004-2005


Change of Paradigms in Polish Literature (information in german language)
Head of Project: Prof. Wolfgang Schlott, Duration to 2004


Popular Culture in Central and Eastern Europe (information in german language)
Contact Persons: Prof. Wolfgang Schlott, Dr. Ivo Bock, duration: 2001-2002


Shifting the Literary Canon in Modern Czech Culture (information in german language)
Head of Project: Dr Ivo Bock, Duration to 1998


Working Group on "Looted Art" (information in german language)
Head of Project: Prof. Wolfgang Eichwede, Duration: 1992-1999