Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Comparative Historical Experience

The Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena is an Institute of Advanced Studies, with a thematic focus on the history, culture and societies of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

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Featured Article

The Divided Legacies of 9 May in Moldova

by Anastasia Felcher

How has the commemoration of the end of World War II turned into a high-profile political spectacle in Moldova in the 2020s? The article explores the divisions over history and memory that fuel the confrontational dynamics of the 9 May holiday in the country. Although it has adopted an anti-Russian stance post-February 2022 and is moving towards European integration, Victory Day sentiments still hold strong mobilisation potential that Russia and its political protégés seek to exploit.

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New Publications

Investigating, Punishing, Agitating

Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc

The essays collected in this volume are devoted to the history of criminal trials on National Socialist crimes in Hungary, the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union after the "thaw" and ask about the preconditions and peculiarities of these proceedings.

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 Investigating, Punishing, Agitating

Lost Fatherland

Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. Taken together, the stories of these men offer readers a window on broad issues of European history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Fellows

Dr Anastasia Felcher

Anastasia Felcher is an academic specializing in historical research, cultural heritage studies, and archival work.

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Dr Anastasia Felcher

Dr Nataliia Zalietok

Nataliia Zalietok works in the fields of Women’s and Gender History, Comparative History, and Archival Science.

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Dr Nataliia Zalietok