Joint Commission for Research into the Recent History of German-Russian Relations
The Joint Commission for Research into the Recent History of German-Russian Relations , often referred to as the German-Russian Historians 'Commission or German-Russian History Commission for short , is a historians' commission that has been researching and publishing by scholars from both sides since the 1990s.
In 1993 and in the following years, the commission was commissioned by high-ranking politicians to place historical research and presentation in both countries on the basis of their mutual past in the 20th century as much as possible. This cannot be taken for granted because in both states or their predecessors, “history” was fraught with ideologies and was partly understood as propaganda of one's own, of course, “correct” historical image. The formation of this bilateral history commission goes back to a joint initiative of the then Russian President Boris Jelzin and the then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , which they agreed in 1993/1994. In 1997 this led to written agreements between the German Foreign Office and the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation . In particular, the commission, supported by secretariats, promotes bilingual research and editing projects and publishes the results of its own activities (e.g. of colloquia, the publication of key documents on the Internet, the "100 Letters from Stalingrad" or a history book in the "Mitteilungen" series) ). Volume 1 of the project on "The 18th Century" and Volume 2 on "The 19th Century" are currently in preparation. The third volume on "The 20th Century" was published in German in 2013 and in Russian in 2015 under the title "Rossija - Germanija. Vechi sovmestnoj istorii v kollektivnoj pamjati".
The commission consists of nine German and nine Russian scientists as well as three senior representatives from the respective archive administrations. 1997 to 2002 the first two co-chairmen were Horst Möller and the academician Aleksandr Čubar'jan. Currently, the Commission includes a. in addition to the co-chairmen on the German side: Helmut Altrichter , Ute Daniel , Beatrice Heuser , Manfred Hildermeier . Scientific members may be reappointed once after five years. On the German side, the funding comes from the budget of the Ministry of the Interior .
Publications, series
- Horst Möller, Aleksandr O. Čubar'jan (both as editors of the series of publications, in the book in the spelling A. Tschubarjan) Communications of the Joint Commission for Research into the Recent History of German-Russian Relations, Volumes 1 - 7, is currently up to date Volume 7 on the First World War (as of 2017)
- Vol. 3 dealt with the view of German reunification in 1989/90
- Vol. 5: The tragedy of Europe. From the crisis of 1939 to the attack by National Socialist Germany on the Soviet Union. Verlag Oldenbourg, 2013. ISBN 978-3-486-73608-3
- Tables of contents are available for volume 1 and volume 3 onwards on the Commission's website
- Aleksandr Galkin, Anatolij Tschernjaev (ed.): Michail Gorbatschow and the German question. Soviet documents 1986–1991. German edition edited by Helmut Altrichter, Horst Möller and Jürgen Zarusky . Comments from Andreas Hilger . Translations by Joachim Glaubitz. Munich 2011.
- Bulletin No. 1: “System upheavals and historical memory in German and Russian history” (on the colloquia 2007–2008; online 2014)
- Schoolbook: The 20th Century. 2013
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ See the description of the tasks and goals on the commission homepage
- ↑ on the project three-volume German-Russian history book for upper secondary school on the website of the commission, accessed on August 30, 2014
- ↑ Table of Contents Vol. 5