CfP: Coming to the Surface or Going Underground? Art Practices, Actors, and Lifestyles in the Soviet Union of the 1950s-1970s
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, November 13-14, 2025
Kolloquiumsvortrag
18:15 Uhr, IW3 0330 / Zoom
Sheila Fitzpatrick (Melbourne)
Lost Souls. Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War
Summerschool European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
25.-26. August 2025 (online), 01.-10. September 2025
Deadline: 06.05.2025
FSO Bremen und Paris; Prag und Paris
Wissenswertes
Cultural Scripts, Ideas and the Media in Soviet Intellectuals’ Encounter with the West
(Habilitationsprojekt) von Dr. Maike Lehmann
This project aims at a transnational intellectual and everyday history of the Cold War. Following Soviet dissidents and non-conformists into exile in the 'West' I want to write a history of encounter and cultural conditioning of individuals from the Soviet Union, post-'1968' Europe and the United States after 'Vietnam'. While being part of a larger migration movement from the Soviet Union, Soviet dissidents attracted much attention from their new host societies. Their personae thus became the testing ground for political beliefs as well as perceptions of the ‘other’ and the 'self'. In the process, these exiles had to reconcile their Soviet background, their private and professional self-conceptions, their family and other ties with the expectations and the everyday demands of their new surroundings. Their experiences and reactions in this context provide a prism for the dynamics and limits of both Soviet and Western intellectual culture, transnational encounters and everyday mentalities in the late 20th century.
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