Continuation of the joint series of lectures "Revolution - Transformation - Globalization Russia 1917-2017" of the Eastern Europe Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin (OEI) and the Center for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOiS)

Gertrud Pickhan has been Professor of History since 2003. She has been Head of the History Division at the Institute for East European Studies since 2004. Prof. Pickhan is one of the editors of "Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas", a quaterly publication on the History of Eastern Europe. Pickhan habilitated in the subject modern history and East European History at the University of Hamburg on the  General Jewish Labour Union („Bund“) in Poland during the interwar period.

The twentieth century in Russia's history and the effects of the Russian Revolution of 1917 in this period are the subject of a public series of lectures in winter semester 2016/2017 at Freie Universität. Scientists from Germany and abroad first dedicate their contributions to the revolution itself and the events that precede it. In the latter part of the series they will examine the aspects of Soviet modernization and its consequences until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and the return of authoritarianism in the 21st century. The series of lectures will be jointly organized by the Eastern Europe Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin (OEI) and the Center for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOIS).

The public lecture by Prof. Pickhan will be held in German. All events of the series are public, admission is free.

Further information
For an overview of the series see the programme flyer.

Contact
Katharina Bluhm, Dean of the Institute of East European Studies, Garystr. 55, Room 216, 14195 Berlin, Phone: +49 30 838 52039, e-mail: katharina.bluhm@fu-berlin.de