Dr Juliane Fürst

Lecturer in Modern European History

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Research interests

I am interested in all aspects of the social and cultural history of the Soviet Union. In particular I am engaged in several projects that involve the study of ordinary people and their everyday lives in extraordinary times. My doctoral dissertation and forthcoming book looks at Soviet youth and youth cultures in the first decade after the Second World War and argues that the Soviet Union, like its Western European neighbours, experienced a shift from collective youth identities based on shared ideological convictions to a youth culture characterised by consumption and increasing fragmentation.

I am currently engaged in two new projects, which continue my interest in the history of human relations and spatial politics. The first is a large pan-European collaborative project that examines networks and ideas around 1968 and is particularly interested in the transnational and generational aspects of movements existing at the time. The second is a new type of social history, which will look at Soviet society through the prism of Soviet train travel.

Research supervision

I welcome proposals for dissertations on all aspects of the social and cultural history of the Soviet Union.

Selected publications

Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention (London: Routledge, 2006) edited volume
'Friends in Private, Friends in Public: The Phenomenon of the kompagniia among Soviet Youth in the 1950s' in Lewis Siegelbaum (ed.), Borders of Socialism (New York: Palgrave, 2006), 229-250
'In Search of Salvation: Letters to the Soviet Authorities', Contemporary European History 15 (2006), 327-345
'Prisoners of the Soviet Self? – Political Youth Opposition in late Stalinism', Europe-Asia Studies 54 (3), 2002, 353-375

Full publications

Full list of Dr Furst's publications since 1990 as held in the University's IRIS publications database.

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