Research
Research profile
- History of violence and dictatorships in the 20th century
- Cultural history of the Cold War
- History of war in the modern era
- Historical Europeanization processes and the history of European concepts
- Holocaust in central Ukraine
- The Second World War in contemporary Russian school textbooks
- Refugees in Ukraine during the Second World War
- Ukraine in the travel literature of the long 20th century
- History of tourism
Ongoing doctoral projects
Facts, feuds and fictions. Russian-German history between identity politics and the culture of remembrance
Intellectuals in times of upheaval. Political design practices of the publicist Milan Ćurčin during the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy and the European reorganization after the First World War (1914-1929)
Abstract:
The dissertation project investigates the political shaping practices of intellectuals against the backdrop of the crisis-ridden period of the First World War and the European reorganization. It focuses on the activities of the Serbian publicist Milan Ćurčin and his network in Zagreb, Belgrade, Vienna and London between 1914 and 1929. In exile in London, Ćurčin campaigned for the establishment of a Yugoslav state. After its proclamation, he campaigned for a liberal-democratic state order as editor of the journal „Nova Evropa“.
The dissertation uses a biographical example to examine how intellectuals implemented their ideas of order on a concrete level of action. It examines the interplay between diagnoses of the times, individual creative aspirations and creative practices. In doing so, she includes Ćurčin's personal network as an instrument of political co-design and as a communication space. Based on his successes and failures, his strategies and adaptations, the research project takes stock of the possibilities and limits of political participation by intellectuals in times of post-imperial upheaval.