Overview of Current ResearchResearch conducted by the staff of the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen is divided into two areas: history and culture, and politics and economics, which in turn are subdivided into countries. The main focus lies in the former Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia, as well as Central and Eastern European Countries, in particular Poland and Czech Republic. German-language research projects are not included. For a full list of all research projects please click here. |
Brezhnev
A Biography
A Cultural History of Foreign Policy (1815-1991)
Crisis Diplomacy between Brother States.
Towards a Cultural History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1953-1968
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.
Shared Discorses
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
New music in the GDR
About the handling of new music in the GDR of the 1960s
Censorship of Soviet fiction literature in the GDR
Censorship of Soviet fiction literature in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrated by the genres village prose and war novel
Dissidents and the West.
Soviet Exiles, Western Intellectuals and Political Culture during the Late Cold War
Soviet Opposition in Detention
The Influence of Prison and Camp Experiences in the Formation of Soviet Underground Movements in the Post-Stalin Era
Spaces of De-Stalinisation
The Closure of the Camps in Kolyma, 1953 to 1960
Visual dismantling of a dictatorship
Photography as an oppositional practice in the work of the Czech dissident Ivan Kyncl in the 1970s
Polish underground mail
Polish underground mail and its stamps in the Republic of Poland of the 1980s
Belief and Obstinacy
Russian Orthodox Popular Piety in the Soviet Union, 1941 to 1964
A Cultural History of Work
A Cultural History of Work in the Late Soviet Union, 1960s - 1980s
Models of Opposition in the late Soviet Union
– the Confederacy of Anarcho-Syndicalists (CAS) and its Predecessor Organizations
