Jan C. Behrends

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Jan C. Behrends (born December 5, 1969 in Bremen ) is a German historian . His main research interests are the contemporary history of Eastern Europe, urban history, European dictatorships and violence research. Since April 2011 he has been working as a research assistant at the Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF) in Potsdam, from 2011 to 2015 as project manager of the international research network Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism , which is part of the Pact for Research and Innovation (SAW procedure ) was funded by the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Science Association. Since 2019, Behrends has headed the international research network Legacies of Communism at the ZZF , which deals from a historical perspective with the authoritarian development of Eastern European and post-Soviet societies after the end of the dictatorship.

Life

After studying history, literary studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin , the Humboldt University of Berlin , the University of Wisconsin and the Moscow Lomonossow University , he did his doctorate with Christoph Kleßmann at the University of Potsdam with the subject “Invented friendship: Propaganda for the Soviet Union in Poland and in the GDR ”. From 2005 to 2011 he worked as a historian at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Since 2005 he has been a lecturer in recent and Eastern European history at the Free University of Berlin and the HU Berlin. In 2007 Behrends was a Fedor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Chicago . Behrends has emerged with numerous articles on questions of propaganda and the public in the dictatorship, the legitimation of statehood in the 20th century, comparing metropolises and physical violence.

Since 2014 he has been dealing with the war in Ukraine and the crisis of the Russian state in numerous publications.

Behrends is a member of the German Society for Eastern European Studies (DGO), the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and the German Association of Historians.

Publications (selection)

As an author

As editor

  • with Gábor T. Larkspur and Malte Rolf: Spheres of the Public in Societies of the Soviet Type. Between party-state self-staging and church counter-worlds (=  comparative library. Vol. 11). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • with Thomas Lindenberger and Patrice G. Poutrus: Strangers and Strangers in the GDR. On the historical causes of xenophobia in East Germany. Metropol, Berlin 2003. ( Digital copies of individual contributions on zeitgeschichte-digital.de. )
  • with Arfon Rees, Bálazs Apor and Polly Jones: The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships. Stalin and the Eastern Bloc. Palgrave, Basingstoke / New York 2004.
  • with Árpád von Klimó and Patrice G. Poutrus: Anti-Americanism in the 20th Century. Studies on Western and Eastern Europe (=  studies on political and social history. Vol. 68). Dietz, Bonn 2005.
  • with Martin Kohlrausch : Races to Modernity. Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940 . Central European University Press, Budapest / New York 2014.
  • with Thomas Lindenberger: Underground Publishing and the Public Sphere. Transnational Perspectives (=  Vienna Studies on Contemporary History. Vol. 6). Lit Verlag, Vienna 2014.
  • with Vera Dubina and Andrej Sorokin: Povsednevnaja žizn 'pri socializme. Nemeckie i rossiiskie podchody (Everyday life in socialism. German and Russian rapprochements.) ROSSPEN, Moscow 2015.
  • Nationalities Papers 43, 5 (2015) Special Issue: War, Violence, and the Military during Late Socialism and Transition
  • with Thomas Lindenberger and Nikolaus Katzer: 100 years of Red October. On the world history of the Russian Revolution . Chr. Left: Berlin 2017.
  • The Return to War and Violence. Case Studies on the USSR, Russia and Yugoslavia, 1979–2014. Routledge: London, New York 2017.
  • with Jürgen Danyel: Cross-border commuters and bridge builders: Contemporary history through the Iron Curtain . Wallstein: Göttingen 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Center for Research on Contemporary History (ZZF) ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zzf-pdm.de
  2. ^ Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism
  3. ↑ Scientific Community Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL)
personal data
SURNAME Behrends, Jan C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen