Geschichte Osteuropas und Südosteuropas
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Habilitationsprojekt: Red Sailors Across the Seas. A maritime history of the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Soviet fleets had been developed rapidly following the end of the Second World War. In addition to the navy, merchant ships were particularly important. It was these ships, more than any other transport structure, that connected the Soviet Union to the world.

The project challenges common understandings of the Soviet Union in the Cold War by gazing from the sea: it focuses on maritime logics, ideas of order on the high seas, ports in capitalist countries and the Global South as spaces of interaction, as well as the sailors themselves. It will analyze, firstly, the paradox of an on several levels closed Soviet Union and the open sea, and secondly, the entanglement and disentanglement that took place in Soviet maritime identity through the different traditions of the republics.


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