Hajo Raupach Editor

Jörn Happel has been Professor of Eastern European History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg since 2020. He received his PhD from the University of Basel in 2009 with a thesis on the anti-Russian colonial uprising in Central Asia in 1916. In 2016, he received his Habilitation in Basel with a study on German-Soviet relations in the 20th century. He is currently researching the history of the Aral Sea in the 19th century.

Melanie Hussinger M.A. has been a research assistant at the chair of Eastern European History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg since 2021. Her research focuses on memory culture and politics in Eastern Europe, practices of remembering and commemoration in post-socialist states, Stalinism and its reappraisal. She is the author of Russia's Last Address. Social commemoration of the victims of Stalinism (2020).

Hajo Raupach M. A. works as a research assistant at the chair for Eastern European and East-Central European History at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany). He is writing his PhD thesis about economic experiments in the late Soviet Union. Other research interests include the cultural history of apocalypse and socialist architecture.