Von Judith Sieber. Die Ausstellung Өмә in Berlin nimmt die Bedeutung und Auswirkungen von Sprache vor dem Hintergrund russischer Geschichte in den Blick und liefert so eine interessante Perspektive auf die koloniale Vergangenheit und Gegenwart des Landes.
By Andrii Portnov. ‘Ukraine between East and West’ is one of the most common metaphors of Ukrainian historiography. It has been regarded as a stable metaphor, one that is simultaneously productive, open and topical.
By Regina Elsner. Russian Orthodoxy is often suspected to be pre or anti-modern because of its difficulties engaging with a plural and secular society – for example, when relating to democracy, human rights, or gender diversity. After the end of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church associated increasingly with the agenda of the political elites in Russia and other successor states of the Soviet Union.
Von Hans-Christian Günther. Philipp Ammon stellt sich in seinem Buch ,Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation‘ die Aufgabe, einen hochaktuellen geopolitischen Konflikt in seinen historischen Kontext zu stellen.
By Stefan B. Kirmse “The Lawful Empire” combines an analysis of law and legal practice with a discussion of autocratic rule over a multicultural empire. It is as much about...
Gregory Afinogenov is an assistant professor of Imperial Russian History at Georgetown University and a Tandem Fellow in Global & Transregional History at the German Historical Institute Washington DC. He...
By Gesine Argent Many accounts of life in the Russian empire, especially the empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, express the idea that French was a universal language for...
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