Spheres of the public sphere in state socialism
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Spheres of the public sphere in state socialism
Spheres of the public sphere in state socialism
This research focus is dedicated to the diverse manifestations of the public sphere in Soviet-style societies. The viability of a flexible concept of the public sphere is tested on the basis of studies on the Soviet Union and East Central Europe. A heterogeneous and multi-layered picture of the manifestations and developments of different spheres of the public sphere emerges. It becomes clear that a contrast with the bourgeois model of the public sphere that merely points out deficits is not suitable for analysing state socialist rule. As part of the research focus, the social relevance of public spheres in Soviet states will be analysed from the internal perspective of various case studies. In the comparative synopsis, however, more general structures of the public sphere in Soviet systems will also be analysed
Publications at the end of project
Monographs and edited publications
Soviet Mass Festivals, 1917-1991 [English translation of The Soviet Mass Festival], Pittsburgh: University Press, 2013.(upittpress.org/books/9780822962397/)
Das sowjetische Massenfest, Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006(www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/d/2278/Das_sowjetische_Massenfest_%28Print%29/156/).
Intoxication and Dictatorship. Inszenierung, Mobilisierung und Kontrolle in totalitären Systemen, edited together with Árpád von Klimó, Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, 2006(www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/geschichte/rausch_und_diktatur-2821.html).
Fest und Diktatur / Festivals and Dictatorship, edited together with Dietrich Beyrau, Munich: C. H. Beck, 2006 (Journal of Modern European History, 3:1).
Between party-state self-presentation and ecclesiastical counter-worlds: Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs / Between the Great Show of the Party-State and Religious Counter-Cultures: Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies, edited with Gábor T. Rittersporn and Jan C. Behrends, Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2003.
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Essays
"Public Body. Mass festivals", in: Media and Communication in the Soviet Union (1917-1953). General Perspectives, edited by Kirill Postoutenko, Alexey Tikhomirov and Dmitri Zakharine, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. pp. 149-164.
"Creating a Soviet Festival Culture - Forging a New Civilisation: Mass Celebrations and Inner Sovietisation", in: Vielfalt der Disziplinen - Einheit des Kulturbegriffs? Symbols, Approaches, Perspectives, Discourses, edited by Caroline Kolisang, Bielefeld 2020, pp. 127-143.
"Neue kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf autoritäre Regime", in: Diktaturen. Perspektiven der zeithistorischen Forschung, edited by Johannes Hürter and Hermann Wentker Berlin: De Gruyter/Oldenbourg, 2019, pp. 99-108.
"Blockübergreifender Wissensaustausch im Kalten Krieg", with Elke Seefried, in: Bulletin of the Berlin Colloquia on Contemporary History, 25 (2018).
"Empty 'spaces of jubilation'. On the Erosion of the Campaign Public Sphere in the Late Soviet Union", in: "Developed Socialism" in Eastern Europe. Labour, Consumption and the Public Sphere, edited by Nada Boškovska, Angelika Strobel and Daniel Ursprung, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2016, pp. 83-108.
"Die Renaissance des Ausnahmezustands im "Zeitalter der Stabilität": Zur sowjetischen Mobilisierungsdiktatur und der Krise des Staatssozialismus in der Breschnew-Ära", in: Ausnahmezustände. Entgrenzungen und Regulierungen in Europa während des Kalten Krieges, edited by Cornelia Rauh and Dirk Schumann, Berlin: Wallstein, 2015, pp. 92-112.
"The Nationalisation of the Soviet Union: Indigenisation Policy, National Cadres and the Emergence of Dissent in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic of the Brežnev Era," in: Golden Age of Stagnation? Perspectives on the Soviet Order of the Brežnev Era, edited by Boris Belge and Martin Deuerlein, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, pp. 203-230.
"Sovetizacija gorodskogo postranstva: Projektirovanie i perestrojka gorodov v Stalinskich vremen [The Sovietisation of Urban Space: Urban Planning in the Stalin Period]", in: Gumanitarnye nauki v Sibiri, 17:1 (2010), pp. 21-35.
"Canon and Counter-Canon: Official Culture and its Inversion in the USSR", in: Osteuropa. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens, special issue Dissidence and Samizdat, 60:11 (2010), pp.173-189.
"A Hall of Mirrors. Sovietising Culture under Stalinism", in: Slavic Review. Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, 68:3 (2009), pp. 601-630.
"Writing a Cultural History of Stalinism in Post-Soviet Times", in: Revista de Historiografia, 10:VI (1/2009), pp. 16-25.
"The Celebrations of the Others: Dissidence and the Soviet Symbolic Cosmos', in Another World? Culture and Politics in Eastern Europe 1945 to the Present. Festschrift für Wolfgang Eichwede, edited by Heidrun Hamersky, Heiko Pleines and Hans-Henning Schröder, Stuttgart: ibidem 2007, pp. 129-137.
"Norm, Abweichung und Aneignung: Kulturelle Konventionen und unkonventionelle Kulturen in der Nachkriegssowjetunion", in: Totalitarismus und Demokratie, Themenheft Opposition im Ostblock, 4 (2007), pp. 223-242.
"Public Spaces and the Public Sphere in Soviet-type Societies: A First Look from a Comparative Perspective (Introduction)', together with Jan C. Behrends and Gabor T. Rittersporn, in Between Party-State Self-Staging and Church Counterworlds: Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs / Between the Great Show of the Party-State and Religious Counter-Cultures: Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies, edited by Gabor T. Rittersporn, Malte Rolf and Jan C. Behrends, Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 7-21.
"Of layers, spaces and spheres: Is there a Soviet order of public spheres? Einige Überlegungen in komparativer Perspektive", together with Jan C. Behrends and Gabor T. Rittersporn, in: Zwischen partei-staatlicher Selbstinszenierung und kirchlichen Gegenwelten: Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs / Between the Great Show of the Party-State and Religious Counter-Cultures: Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies, edited by Gabor T. Rittersporn, Malte Rolf and Jan C. Behrends, Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 389-421.
"Feste der Einheit und Schauspiele der Partizipation. Die Inszenierung von Öffentlichkeit in der Sowjetunion während des Ersten Fünfjahresplanes", in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 50:2 (2002), pp. 163-171.
"Symbolpolitik im öffentlichen Raum - zu ihren Funktionen und Methoden in autoritären Systemen. A sketch of the problem using the example of the GDR", in: Vestnik Čeljabinskogo Universiteta, 1:1 (2002), pp. 104-106.
"Kul'ty ličnosti v gorodskom prostranstve. Voronež, Novosibirsk i Kemerovo v 1930-e gody" [Leader cults in urban space. Voronez, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo in the 1930s], in: Gorodskaja kul'tura Sibiri: Tradicii i novacii, edited by N.N. Pokrovskij and S.A. Krasil'nikov, Novosibirsk: SORAN, 2002, pp. 86-97.
"Life has become easier": Inszenierte Lebensstile zwischen 1927 und 1939 (Voronež)", in Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte, 1 (2002), pp. 147-175.