Leonid Luks

Leonid Luks (born January 24, 1947 in Sverdlovsk ) is a historian of Russian origin and held the chair for Central and Eastern European Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt from 1995 to 2012 .

Life

Luks studied history and Russian studies in Israel. This was followed from 1969 onwards by studying Eastern European History, Modern History and Slavonic Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, which he completed with a dissertation on Lenin's foreign policy ideas , followed by a habilitation under the supervision of Thomas Nipperdey on the development of the communist fascism theory. The Comintern's confrontation with fascism and national socialism 1921–1935 .

After academic and journalistic activities, he became an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne in 1993 and , in 1995, a full professor for Central and Eastern European Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He has been retired since 2012 . From 2011 to June 23, 2015 he was director of the Central Institute for Central and Eastern European Studies , of which he was previously vice director.

His scientific work focuses on: a. the history of Polish Catholicism , Bolshevism as well as the history of Russian ideas and the Eurasier movement .

Lenin's foreign policy concepts in their application , Munich 1976
Development of the communist fascism theory. The Comintern's confrontation with fascism and national socialism 1921–1935 . DVA, Stuttgart 1985
Catholicism and political power in communist Poland 1945–1989. The anatomy of a liberation . Böhlau, Cologne 1993
with Peter Schulz, Peter Ehlen and Nikolaus Lobkowicz (eds.): Simon L. Frank . Works in 8 volumes. Karl Alber, Freiburg 2000 ff.
The “third way” of the “ neo-Eurasian ” magazine “Çlementy”. Back to the Third Reich? Studies in East European Thought, 52, 2000, pp. 49-71
On the “geopolitical” program of Aleksandr Dugins and the magazine “Çlementy” - a Manichean temptation? Forum for Eastern European History of Ideas and Contemporary History, 6, 1, 2002, pp. 43–58
Two "special ways"? Russian-German parallels and contrasts (1917–2014). Comparative essays. Ibidem, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-8382-0823-7

Literature by and about Leonid Luks in the catalog of the German National Library
Internet presence at the University of Eichstätt
Bibliography (PDF; 165 kB)
Bolshevism, Fascism and National Socialism in comparison - a sketch. (PDF; 219 kB) University of Eichstätt, accessed on December 30, 2010 .
Leonid Luks: Eurasia from a neototalitarian perspective. On the renaissance of an ideology in today's Russia . In: Totalitarismus und Demokratie , 1, 1, 2004, pp. 63–76