Dr. Maike Lehmann

This project aims at a transnational intellectual and everyday history of the Cold War. Following Soviet dissidents and non-conformists into exile in the 'West' I want to write a history of encounter and cultural conditioning of individuals from the Soviet Union, post-'1968' Europe and the United States after 'Vietnam'. While being part of a larger migration movement from the Soviet Union, Soviet dissidents attracted much attention from their new host societies. Their personae thus became the testing ground for political beliefs as well as perceptions of the ‘other’ and the 'self'. In the process, these exiles had to reconcile their Soviet background, their private and professional self-conceptions, their family and other ties with the expectations and the everyday demands of their new surroundings. Their experiences and reactions in this context provide a prism for the dynamics and limits of both Soviet and Western intellectual culture, transnational encounters and everyday mentalities in the late 20th century.

• Mitglied der Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
• Mitglied des Verbandes der Osteuropa-Historiker (VOH)
• Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO)

Stipendien und Drittmittel: UoC Advanced Postdoc Grant, VolkswagenStiftung, Thyssen-Stiftung, DAAD, Connect-Stipendium der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, DGO, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Frauenförderung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DHI Washington, DHI Paris, NetEx Universität zu Köln

• Geschichte der multiethnischen Sowjetunion
• Soviet intellectuals and the West
• Popular Orientalism in the Russian Empire
• The Transnational Re/Production of Knowledge in the 1990s
• The Many Faces of Late Socialism. The Individual in the ‘Eastern Bloc’, 1953-1988

• Eine Sowjetische Nation. Nationale Sozialismusinterpretationen in Armenien seit 1945, Frankfurt am Main/ New York: Campus 2012.

• Mit Annette Schuhmann (ed.), Die Wirklichkeit ist angekommen…. Ein Dossier aus Anlass des russischen Überfalls auf die Ukraine, in: Zeitgeschichte-online, URL: https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/node/58624
• The Socialist in ‚Dissident‘ Milieus, in: Cahiers de Monde Russe 62, 1/2021.
• Family, Gender and (dis)Abled Bodies, in: East European Politics, Society and Culture 34, 4/2020 - mit Alexandra Oberländer.
• Redefining Community in the Late Soviet Union, in: Slavic Review 74, 1/Spring 2015.
• Dem Anderen begegnen. Eigene und fremde Repräsentationen in sozialen Gemeinschaften, Frankfurt am Main/ New York: Campus 2009 - mit Jörg Baberowski und David Feest.

• Von der Hartnäckigkeit eines Attributs. Das (Post-)Sowjetische als politische und identitätsrelevante Ressource, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 16/2021, 4-9.
• ‘Dissident’ Milieus and the System. A Foreword, in: Cahiers de Monde Russe 62, 1/2021, S. 19–26.
• Really Existing Socialist Subjects, in: Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 48, 2/2021), S. 164–170 - mit Alexandra Oberländer.
• ‘Socialism (to be) embodied', with Alexandra Oberländer, in: Family, Sexuality and ‘Disabled’ Bodies in the Eastern Bloc after 1953, in: East European Politics, Society and Culture 34, 4/2020), S. 802–806.
• Apricot Socialism. National Past, the Soviet Project and the Imagining of Community in Late Soviet Armenia, in: Slavic Review 74, 1/2015, S. 9–31.