Stefan Plaggenborg

Stefan Plaggenborg (born March 18, 1956 in Löningen ) is a German historian. Since 2007 he has held the chair for Eastern European History at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

Plaggenborg studied history and German at the University of Freiburg . He was in 1986 with the topic State Finances and Industrialization in Russia 1881-1903. The balance sheet of tax policy for the tax authorities, population and economy is being promoted. He then worked as a research associate until 1994 and later as an assistant in Freiburg. He completed his habilitation in 1993 with the font Revolutionary Culture. Images of man and cultural practice in Soviet Russia between the October Revolution and Stalinism . Between 1994 and 1999 he held the chair for Eastern European History in Jena , after which he moved to the University of Marburg . With the abolition of Eastern European history in Marburg, Plaggenborg's professorship was transferred to the newly founded Eastern European Center of the University of Gießen in 2006. In October 2007, Plaggenborg took over the chair for Eastern European History at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He was also a fellow at the “Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies” from October 2009 to December 2010.

His research focuses on the social history of the ending tsarist empire, the history of the Soviet Union, but also the history of violence. Plaggenborg also deals with the comparative history of authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.

In the past, through his writings and his participation in the Stalinism working group, he has contributed to expanding research on Stalinism to include aspects of cultural history. In 2012 he published the book Order and Violence , which compares the regimes of fascism , socialism in its Stalinist variety and Kemalism .

Fonts

Books

• Pravda. Justice, rule and sacred order in old Russia. Paderborn 2018.
• Order and violence. Kemalism - Fascism - Socialism. Munich 2012.
• Experiment modern. The Soviet way. Frankfurt a. M., New York 2006.
• Revoljucija i kul'tura. Kul'turnye orientiry v period meždu Oktjabr'skoj revoljuciej i ėpochoj stalinizma. Saint Petersburg 2000.
• Revolutionary culture. Images of man and cultural practice in Soviet Russia between the October Revolution and Stalinism. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1996.
• Public finances and industrialization in Russia 1881-1903. The balance sheet of tax policy for the tax authorities, population and economy . In: Research on Eastern European History 44 (1991), pp. 123–339
• Soviet history in the contemporary history of Europe , Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , published on September 30, 2011

Editorships

• Alexander Bogdanov. Theorist for the 20th Century. Edited by Stefan Plaggenborg and Maja Soboleva. Munich 2008.
• Handbook of History of Russia. Vol. 5 (2 vol.): 1945-1991 - From the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Edited by Stefan Plaggenborg. Stuttgart 2002-2003.
• Soviet youth 1917-1941. Generation between revolution and resignation. Edited by Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Stefan Plaggenborg a. Monica Wellmann. Essen 2001.
• Stalinism. New research and concepts. Edited by Stefan Plaggenborg. Berlin 1998.
• The beginning of society in the prescribed state. Russia in the late phase of the tsarist empire. Edited by Heiko Haumann u. Stefan Plaggenborg. Frankfurt / M. etc. 1994.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the University of Bochum with information about Stefan Plaggenborg
2. ↑ Stefan Plaggenborg: How a place of study was destroyed. In: FAZ , November 20, 2007.