Donal O'Sullivan (historian)

Dónal O'Sullivan (* 1965 in Cologne ) is a German - Irish historian and former journalist .

Life

O'Sullivan studied Political Science, Modern and Eastern European History and Public Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1984 to 1989 (Magister Artium 1989). From 1990 to 1996 he was editor of the Russian-language department of the German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle . In 1995 he was in political science on German and British Russia Pictures of the 1920s and 1930s to Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a research assistant or assistant at the Chair for Central and Eastern European Contemporary History (Professor Leonid Luks ) at the Faculty of History and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Eichstätt. In 2001, he completed his habilitation in history on Soviet policy on Eastern Europe between 1939 and 1949.

From 2001 to 2005 he was Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the "Liberal Arts" Claremont McKenna College in California. Since 2007 he has been Assistant or Associate Professor at the Department of History at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where he teaches German and Russian history. His focus is on Russia, the Soviet Union and international relations. In 2009 he won the CSUN Distinguished Teaching Award and in 2012 the College Teaching Fellowship. In 2011 he participated in the Summer Archives Workshop of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University in California.

Until 2001, O'Sullivan was co-editor of the journal Forum for Eastern European Ideas and Contemporary History of the Central Institute for Central and Eastern European Studies (ZIMOS) at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He also published a. a. in the quarterly journals for contemporary history and in Politikon . Together with other scientists (including Nikolaus Katzer and Wolfgang Muellerist ) he was entrusted with the project Handbook of Soviet Foreign Policy 1917–1991 .

Awards

• 1993/94: Friedwart Bruckhaus Prize of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation (for a multi-part series on political thinking in Western Europe)
• 1995: Kurt Magnus Prize of the ARD
• 2008: Historian Prize of the Erich-und-Erna-Kronauer-Stiftung (for Stalin's "cordon sanitaire" )

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Fear and fascination. German and British Images of Russia, 1921–1933 . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-412-07996-0 .
• Stalin's “cordon sanitaire”. Soviet Eastern European Policy and Western Reactions 1939–1949 . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2003, ISBN 3-506-70142-8 .
• Dealing with the devil. Anglo-Soviet intelligence cooperation in the Second World War (= Studies in modern European history . Vol. 63). Lang, New York et al. a. 2010, ISBN 978-1-4331-0581-4 .

Editing

• with Leonid Luks (ed.): The return of history. Eastern Europe in search of continuity (= publications of the Central Institute for Central and Eastern European Studies . Vol. 2). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-412-07097-1 .
• with Leonid Luks (Ed.): Russia and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. Two “special paths” in comparison (= publications of the Central Institute for Central and Eastern European Studies . Vol. 4). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-412-04000-2 .

Contributions to edited volumes

• "The later you ask us for help, the more expensive you will pay us" - the Soviet foreign policy between the Munich Agreement and June 22, 1941 . In: Ludmila Thomas , Viktor Knoll (ed.): Between tradition and revolution. Determinants and structures of Soviet foreign policy 1917–1941 (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe . Vol. 59). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07700-6 , p. 157 ff.
• “Our satellites” - global and regional claims to power of the USSR 1943–1956 . In: Waltraud Schreiber (Ed.): From Imperium Romanum to global village. "Globalizations" in the mirror of history (= Eichstätter series of contact studies for history lessons . Vol. 1). Ars Una, Neuried 2000, ISBN 3-89391-483-8 , p. 319 ff.
• »Whoever occupies an area ...« Soviet Eastern European Policy 1943–1947/48 . In: Stefan Creuzberger , Manfred Görtemaker (Hrsg.): Gleichschaltung under Stalin ?. The development of the parties in Eastern Europe 1944–1949 . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-506-76164-1 , p. 45 ff.
• Foreign Policy and the Archival Experience in Russia . In: Stefan Creuzberger, Rainer Lindner (Hrsg.): Russian Archives and History. Legal basis - working conditions - research perspectives (= contemporary history, communism, Stalinism . Vol. 2). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-631-51827-7 , pp. 255 ff.
• Foreign policy . In: Thomas M. Bohn , Dietmar Neutatz (Hrsg.): Study Guide Eastern Europe . Volume 2: History of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (= UTB . 3168: History). 2nd, revised and updated edition, Böhlau (UTB), Cologne u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3168-2 , pp. 137 ff.
• Fighting in Three Uniforms. Soviet POWs in World War Two . In: Nir Arielli, Bruce Collins (eds.): Transnational Soldiers: Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era . palgrave macmillan, New York et al. a. 2013, ISBN 978-0-230-31968-4 , p. 233 ff.

literature

• Nikolaus Lobkowicz , Leonid Luks , Andreas Fuchs (eds.): West-east, east-west bridging: 10 years at the Central Institute for Central and Eastern European Studies (ZIMOS) at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . Central Institute for Central and Eastern European Studies, Eichstätt 2005, p. 109.

Web links

• Donal O'Sullivan at California State University, Northridge

Individual evidence

1. ^ Full-time Faculty , csun.edu, accessed on July 29, 2016.
2. ↑ onPaper: Information on the print editions , 1.ku-eichstaett.de, accessed on July 29, 2016.
3. ↑ Modern History I (19th / 20th century): Forschungsprofil , uni-potsdam.de, accessed on July 29, 2016.
4. ↑ Friedwart Bruckhaus-Förderpreis ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , schleyer-stiftung.de, accessed on July 29, 2016.