Alexander Markowitsch Etkind

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Alexander Markowitsch Etkind

Alexander Markowitsch Etkind ( Russian Александр Маркович Эткинд ; * 1955 in Leningrad ) is a Russian psychologist and cultural scientist .

Life

Etkind's father was the art historian Mark Grigorjewitsch Etkind , a brother of Efim Etkind . Alexander Etkind graduated from Leningrad State University in 1976 . In 1990 he emigrated from the Soviet Union . He then taught at universities in Harvard, Stanford, New York, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna and Berlin.

His research interests include the colonization of Russia, Russian protest movements and cultures of remembrance in Eastern Europe. From 2010 to 2013 he led the international research project “Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine”.

Translated publications

  • Eros of the impossible: the history of psychoanalysis in Russia , Leipzig: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1996, ISBN 978-3-378-01006-2
  • One or more movements or: who will lead the changes in Russia? , Cologne: Federal Institute for Eastern Studies and International Studies

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