Members

The members of the network are:

Dr. Katarzyna Adamczak

Katarzyna is a research assistant at the Specialised Information Service for East, Central and Southeast European Studies at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.
She will take a leading role in publishing a document reader on https://www.osmikon.de/.

Marcus Dietrich, M.A.

Marcus is a doctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
His publications include: CMEA’s Monetary Institutions between the West and the Global South, in: Historia Scribere 15, Innsbruck 2023: 109-121 (open access).

Dr. Lukas Dovern

Lukas is a postdoctoral scholar at the History Department of the Kiel University.
His publications include: Frankfurt Stories: Narrative Economics and West German Lending to Socialist Poland, 1969-1989. German Studies Review 45, no. 2 (2022): 263-281.

Dr. Johannes Gleixner

Johannes is a postdoctoral scholar at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.
His publications include:
- Socialist Secularism between Nation, State, and the Transnational Movement: The International of Proletarian Freethinkers in Central and Eastern Europe.” In Carolin Kosuch (ed.), Freethinkers in Europe: National and Transnational Secularities, 1789−1920s, Berlin 2020: 235–270.
- Between a New System and Capitalist Rules: The Czechoslovak Economic Reform Discussion and the Question of the Autonomy of the Socialist Economy. In: Schulze Wessel, Martin (Hg.): The Prague Spring as a Laboratory. Göttingen 2019: 53–66.

Mina Hristova, PhD

Mina is an assistant professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
Her publications include: Between Banal and Signal Nationalism: the Bulgarian banknotes post-1991 (pt.1) Bulgarian Ethnology 3: 301 – 323, 2024. [in Bulgarian]

Anna Ivanova, PhD

Aleksandra Komornicka, PhD

Aleksandra is an assistant professor at the Maastricht University.
Her publications include: Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s: The Opening Up, London: Routledge, 2023.

Dr. Alexandra Oberländer

Alexandra is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institut for East European Studies.
Her publications include:
- Unerhörte Subjekte: Die Wahrnehmung sexueller Gewalt in Russland 1880-1910. Frankfurt/Main 2013.
- Hatching Money: The Political Economy of Eggs in the 1960s, in Cahiers du monde russe 61, 1-2 (2020): 235-260.

Dr. Tomasz Rawski

Tomasz is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
His publications include: Pathways to Agonism. Disputed Territories and Memory. Leiden: Brill.

Szinan Radi, PhD

Alex Royt, PhD

Alex received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024 and is a graduate fellow at the Wharton School.
His doctoral dissertation examines Stalinism as a financial revolution that sought to create an alternative financial system to the capitalist West.
His publications include the blog post: When Financial Audits Become Political.

Dr. habil Stephan Rindlisbacher

Stephan is co-leader of this network; more information at: Stephan Rindlisbacher

Dr. Gunnar Take

Dr. Daniel Trabalski

Dr. Max Trecker

Max is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Economic & Social History at the University of Göttingen.
His publications include:
- Red Money for the Global South: East–South Economic Relations in the Cold War, London 2020.
- Entrepreneurs as saviours of socialism? The complicated relationship between East German state socialism and entrepreneurship, in: Business history 65/7 (2023): 1209-1225.