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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03. August 2023 [NO EVENT SINGLE DAY]

Upcoming Monday Seminar

we resume our Monday seminar with the beginning of the winter semester in mid-October

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Featured Article

Separatism and the Uses of the Past

Politics of History in the Self-Proclaimed Republics of Donbas

by Alexandr Voronovici

What role do history and memory play in the war that Russia has launched against Ukraine, especially in the period prior to the full-scale invasion of the country in 2022? The article looks at the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk since 2014 and outlines what historical narratives have been forged by separatist leaders and how they were strategically used to mobilize people and consolidate power.

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New Publications

Memory Crash

Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s

This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020.

Ich werde mich nie an die Gewalt gewöhnen

Polizeibrutalität und Gesellschaft in der Volksrepublik Polen

The book explores how police brutality ceased to be considered a natural phenomenon in Poland and became morally reprehensible. It tells of the progressive self-destruction of the communist dictatorship. Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie polizeiliche Brutalität in Polen aufhörte, selbstverständlich zu sein, und moralisch verwerflich wurde. Es erzählt von der schleichenden Selbstzerstörung der kommunistischen Diktatur.

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Fellows

Professor Tetiana Hoshko

from May 2023

Dr Jan Zofka

Jan Zofka is a Historian of Eastern Europe whose recent research focuses on transnational and global dimensions of socialist industrialization processes during the 1950s.

Professor Ostap Sereda

Ostap Sereda is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern und Contemporary Ukrainian History at the Ukrainian Catholic University in L'viv.

Dr Irina Shcherbakova

Irina Shcherbakova is a historian and human rights activist. She is a founding member of Memorial, where she is the director of the youth and education programms and a member of the International Memo...