Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Comparative Historical Experience

The Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena is an Institute of Advanced Studies, with a thematic focus on the history, culture and societies of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

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07. April 2025 - 16:15

Upcoming Monday Seminar

The Great Freeze of 1963: Humans, Sheep, and Ice in the Cold War

Immo Rebitschek (Jena)

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Featured Article

A Trident on the Shield

Ukraine’s Decommunization Strategy and the Case of the “Mother Ukraine” Statue

by Viktoriia Nechyporuk

While there have been recurring debates about how to deal with the Soviet legacy since the country's independence, in 2015 decommunisation became a systemic imperative of Ukrainian state policy. Particularly in the case of monuments that are an essential part of the public space, redefinition became a strategy of decommunisation. The article examines the debates surrounding and the alteration of such a monument, the Motherland statue in Kiyv.

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New Publications

Unter deutscher Besatzung

Europa 1939 - 1945

Tatjana Tönsmeyer zeigt eindrücklich, wie die deutsche Besatzung das Leben von Millionen Europäerinnen und Europäern veränderte, und was es bedeutet, unter einer Besatzungsherrschaft zu leben. Eine Erfahrung, die vor dem Hintergrund der russischen Besatzung großer Gebiete der Ukraine von bedrückender Aktualität ist.

Lost Fatherland

Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. Taken together, the stories of these men offer readers a window on broad issues of European history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Fellows

Professor Tetiana Grebeniuk

Tetiana Grebeniuk is a philologist with a research focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.

Dr Alexa Stiller

Alexa Stiller researches and publishes on the history of National Socialism, the Nuremberg Trials and the history of international criminal law, wars and mass violence in the 1990s.

Dr Kateryna Burkush

Kateryna Burkush is a social historian of labour in the late Soviet Union.

Dr Alexa von Winning

Alexa von Winning specializes in imperial history, historical biographies and the history of transformation in Eastern Europe.