Michal Reiman

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Michal Reiman (born July 14, 1930 in Moscow ) is a Czech political scientist and historian .

Life

Michal Reiman was born in Moscow in 1930, the son of Pavel Reiman , but the family was based in Czechoslovakia. After Hitler's troops marched into Czechoslovakia, Reiman and his mother emigrated to the Soviet Union, where they lived from 1939 to 1945. In 1941, like most Moscow children, Reiman was evacuated to a children's colony in the Gorky region. From 1943 to 1945 he lived with his mother in the Moscow Hotel Lux . Reiman studied history in Moscow after the war and returned to Prague, where he was followed by his future wife Tamara in 1955, when Soviet citizens were granted the right to marry foreigners. He was a lecturer in the history of Czechoslovakia at the Political University in Prague. His book "The Russian Revolution" from 1967 received heavy criticism in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. During the Prague Spring he was politically active, after the crackdown on the Prague Spring he was banned from working. He came to Germany in 1976 as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 1978 his Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked, so he stayed in Germany. He was active in the Listy group. Reiman taught as a professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin . After his retirement in 1995, he taught at Charles University in Prague until 2010 .

His specialty is the political history of the Soviet Union , especially the history of Stalinism .

Publications (selection)

  • Ruská revoluce [The Russian Revolution], Czech, Naše Vojsko, Prague 1967, reprint 1991, ISBN 80-206-0031-0 (Russian: Prague 1968, Italian: Bari 1969)
  • Lenin, Stalin, Gorbačev: Continuity a. Breaks in Soviet history , Hamburg: Junius 1987, ISBN 3-88506-160-0 .
  • (as co-author): Spring in Moscow: are Lenin's heirs tired? , published by the Eastern European Socialist Committee. Hamburg: Junius 1987, (Eastern Europe Info No. 68)
  • The birth of Stalinism: the USSR on the eve of the "second revolution" , Frankfurt / Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1979, ISBN 3-434-00416-5 .
  • (Ed. With Gert-Joachim Glaeßner): System change and democratization: Russia and Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union , Westdeutscher Verlag 1997 (Springer VS) ISBN 978-3-531-13003-3 .

literature

  • Dieter Segert: Prager Frühling: Conversations about a European experience (Dieter Segert in conversation with Michal Reiman, with a foreword by Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi and a poem by Volker Braun , ISBN 978-3-7003-1666-4 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stamped Parias . In: The time . No. 50/1970 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Reiman, Michal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech historian and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow