Juliane Fürst

Juliane Christiane Angelika Fürst (born April 6, 1973 in Munich ) is a German-British historian . Her research focuses on youth, protest and subcultures , late and post socialism and socialist subjectivity.

Life

Juliane Fürst was born in Munich in 1973 . After graduating from high school, she studied history and law at the University of Heidelberg from 1992 to 1994 until the intermediate examination . From 1994 to 1997 she completed a Bachelor in Modern History at the University of Oxford ( Christ Church ). From 1997 to 1998 she studied Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE). From 1998 to 2003 she did her doctorate under the title 'Stalin's last Generation - Youth, State and Komsomol 1945-1953'. At the same time she was a scholarship lecturer for modern history at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. From 2003 to 2007 she was a Junior Research Fellow at St. John's College, University of Oxford. From 2007 she taught Modern History at the University of Bristol . Since August 2018 she has been Head of the Communism and Society Department at the Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF) in Potsdam.

Works

• Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention. Routledge, 2006 (Editor)
• Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism. Oxford University Press, 2010 (monograph)
• Dropping out of Socialism: Alternative Cultures and Lifestyles in the Soviet Bloc. Lexington Books, 2017, (editor with Josie McLellan)
• Cambridge History of Communism, Vol. III: Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective 1968 - present. Cambridge University Press, 2017, (Editor with Silvio Pons and Mark Selden)
• Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond. Oxford University Press, 2020 (monograph)

Awards and grants

• 2011-2015 Principal Investigator AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Board) project title: 'Dropping out of Socialism', Independent research into the Soviet hippie movement, co-coordinator of the project, including support for two dissertations, collaboration with Co-I Dr. Josie McLellan, organization of workshops with subsequent publication
• 2014 Senior Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, project title: Travels through the Soviet Hippieland under the 2013/14 theme 'Subjectivities and Identities' in Eurasia
• 2016-2018 Principal Investigator AHRC Standard Scholarship, Project title: 'In the Zone of Kaif: The Life of Azazello - Hippie, Poet, Addict and Artist'
• 2017 Senior Core Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Central European University, Budapest

Web links

• Vita at the Center for Contemporary History Research