Juliane Fürst
@jcaf.bsky.social
Historian of Eastern Europe. Lover of random, untold histories. Explorer of the last days of state socialism.
ERC Project: Perestroika from Below
ZZF Potsdam, CEU Vienna
ERC Project: Perestroika from Below
ZZF Potsdam, CEU Vienna
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In Myrnohrad, which literally means “peace city,” “some residents returned to retrieve a few belongings from their ravaged apartments, despite the drones hunting them in the streets.” Year, after year, Russia gets to destroy and terrorize with impunity www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
What Our Photographer Saw as a Safe City Became a Blood Bath
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In Myrnohrad, which literally means “peace city,” “some residents returned to retrieve a few belongings from their ravaged apartments, despite the drones hunting them in the streets.” Year, after year, Russia gets to destroy and terrorize with impunity www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
come and meet Azazello.
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
come and meet Azazello.
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It seems that Banksy has just appeared in Lviv
We already know that in these difficult times, the world's most famous street artist has chosen Ukraine.
Art as resistance. Art as solidarity. Art as voice.
When the world watches, artists speak.
What's your message? 🇺🇦
We already know that in these difficult times, the world's most famous street artist has chosen Ukraine.
Art as resistance. Art as solidarity. Art as voice.
When the world watches, artists speak.
What's your message? 🇺🇦
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It seems that Banksy has just appeared in Lviv
We already know that in these difficult times, the world's most famous street artist has chosen Ukraine.
Art as resistance. Art as solidarity. Art as voice.
When the world watches, artists speak.
What's your message? 🇺🇦
We already know that in these difficult times, the world's most famous street artist has chosen Ukraine.
Art as resistance. Art as solidarity. Art as voice.
When the world watches, artists speak.
What's your message? 🇺🇦
Please meet Azazello, hippie, poet, artist and narkoman, who is sadly no longer with us but whose papers found their way to The Wende Museum in LA and have been digitalised and contextualised by a team of scholars. It is an unusual ride into an exotic and marginalised world: azazello-archive.com/en/
Azazello Archive / The Life and Work of Azazello - Hippie, Poet and Artist
Azazello was a hippie, poet and artist. He believed in the power of mind-altering drugs and paid for his pacifism and opposition to the Soviet state with many months in psychiatric hospitals. He was a...
azazello-archive.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Please meet Azazello, hippie, poet, artist and narkoman, who is sadly no longer with us but whose papers found their way to The Wende Museum in LA and have been digitalised and contextualised by a team of scholars. It is an unusual ride into an exotic and marginalised world: azazello-archive.com/en/
Angelinos, please come to our launch of the digital Azazello archive at the Wende Museum on November 19. Azazello was a hippie, poet, drug addict, artist and contrarian, whose archive miraculously survived him, providing a rare glimpse into the Soviet underground.
wendemuseum.org/event/azazel...
wendemuseum.org/event/azazel...
An Evening with Azazello: Notes from the Zone of Kaif
Explore the life and art of Soviet hippie icon Azazello as we launch his digital archive with music, readings, and conversation.
wendemuseum.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Angelinos, please come to our launch of the digital Azazello archive at the Wende Museum on November 19. Azazello was a hippie, poet, drug addict, artist and contrarian, whose archive miraculously survived him, providing a rare glimpse into the Soviet underground.
wendemuseum.org/event/azazel...
wendemuseum.org/event/azazel...
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RIP Igor Palmin, photographer of Soviet life both over- and underground and chronicler of late socialism in a quiet yet piercing manner. I did a podcast for the Barbican in 2018, where his work was part of the Another Kind of Life exhibition.
www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.
www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
RIP Igor Palmin, photographer of Soviet life both over- and underground and chronicler of late socialism in a quiet yet piercing manner. I did a podcast for the Barbican in 2018, where his work was part of the Another Kind of Life exhibition.
www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.
www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.
RIP Igor Palmin, photographer of Soviet life both over- and underground and chronicler of late socialism in a quiet yet piercing manner. I did a podcast for the Barbican in 2018, where his work was part of the Another Kind of Life exhibition.
www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.
www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
RIP Igor Palmin, photographer of Soviet life both over- and underground and chronicler of late socialism in a quiet yet piercing manner. I did a podcast for the Barbican in 2018, where his work was part of the Another Kind of Life exhibition.
www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.
www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.
Vielen Dank an die Dame mit moralischem Kompass und Zivilcourage.
Der russische Botschafter kommt auf Einladung seiner eigenen Partei, dem BSW, zum Landtag nach Potsdam - eine Frau protestiert dagegen und die Polizei schreitet ernsthaft ein. Dank an die Frau und den Journalisten Thorsten Metzner, der das dokumentierte.
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Vielen Dank an die Dame mit moralischem Kompass und Zivilcourage.
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Die andere Seite der Medaille.
zweiteroktober90.de
zweiteroktober90.de
zweiteroktober90 – Die Gewalt der Vereinigung
Online-Dokumentation neonazistischer Angriffe, die am 2./3. Oktober 1990, also zum Tag der Vereinigung der beiden deutschen Staaten stattgefunden haben.
zweiteroktober90.de
October 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Die andere Seite der Medaille.
zweiteroktober90.de
zweiteroktober90.de
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Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
September 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
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RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.
RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.
Solidarity for my colleague F. Davies, whose nuanced discussion about oversights in imperial Russian history was compared by the editors of Ab Imperio as akin to Putin’s historical frame. No critique can be as damming as what the editors did to themselves by twisting words and turning personal.
Heute hatte ich Gelegenheit auf einen Text von vier russischen Historikern (based in USA) zu antworten, der letzte Woche in der FAZ erschienen ist. Der Text der vier war eine zutiefst persönliche Attacke auf mich, weil ich es gewagt hatte, Teile (!) der Imperiumsforschung zu 🇷🇺 zu kritisieren.
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Auf die unsachlichen Angriffe vor einer Woche in der FAZ antwortet @efdavies.bsky.social heute ebendort
September 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Solidarity for my colleague F. Davies, whose nuanced discussion about oversights in imperial Russian history was compared by the editors of Ab Imperio as akin to Putin’s historical frame. No critique can be as damming as what the editors did to themselves by twisting words and turning personal.
There is something particularly brutal about killing the very young and/ or the very old. Russia has just broken through another shameful barrier. In full daylight and with no shame.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...
Russian Bomb Hits Crowd of Retirees, Killing at Least 23, Ukraine Says
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There is something particularly brutal about killing the very young and/ or the very old. Russia has just broken through another shameful barrier. In full daylight and with no shame.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...
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Yesterday’s lunar eclipse over Kyiv 💙💛
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September 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yesterday’s lunar eclipse over Kyiv 💙💛
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Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
August 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
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OTD in 1989 around 2 million people formed a human chain through Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia to beg mother Moscow not to remove its troops which were genuinely invited in as a result of nothing to do with Molotov Ribbentrop pact OTD 50 years prior...
August 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
OTD in 1989 around 2 million people formed a human chain through Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia to beg mother Moscow not to remove its troops which were genuinely invited in as a result of nothing to do with Molotov Ribbentrop pact OTD 50 years prior...
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,..wenn wir irgendetwas beim Nationalsozialismus anerkennen, dann ist es die Anerkennung, dass ihm zum ersten Mal in der deutschen Politik die restlose Mobilisierung der menschlichen Dummheit gelungen ist."
Kurt Schumacher
13. Oktober 1895- 20. August 1952

Kurt Schumacher
13. Oktober 1895- 20. August 1952

August 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
,..wenn wir irgendetwas beim Nationalsozialismus anerkennen, dann ist es die Anerkennung, dass ihm zum ersten Mal in der deutschen Politik die restlose Mobilisierung der menschlichen Dummheit gelungen ist."
Kurt Schumacher
13. Oktober 1895- 20. August 1952

Kurt Schumacher
13. Oktober 1895- 20. August 1952

What is so annoying from a historian’s point of view about current Russia coverage is how journalism declares the Cold War as won or lost. The Cold War East did not only consist of Russia. Many former Soviet bloc countries consider themselves to have been winners in 1989/1991.
August 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
What is so annoying from a historian’s point of view about current Russia coverage is how journalism declares the Cold War as won or lost. The Cold War East did not only consist of Russia. Many former Soviet bloc countries consider themselves to have been winners in 1989/1991.
Most comments on the Alaska summit have concentrated on Trump gobbling up Putin’s manipulative flattery. But there was also something odd about Putin. His domestic audiences know him as a poker face. In Alaska he gestured and grimaced a lot. Almost like he had been coached to act more ‘American’.
August 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Most comments on the Alaska summit have concentrated on Trump gobbling up Putin’s manipulative flattery. But there was also something odd about Putin. His domestic audiences know him as a poker face. In Alaska he gestured and grimaced a lot. Almost like he had been coached to act more ‘American’.
There was a time when Lavrov was considered a serious diplomat. … Is he consciously aping Melania Trump in sending his true thoughts via an item of clothing. Or is he referencing Vance’s attack on Zelensky’s lack of office wear? Is this the Russian war attire? The mind boggles. Not in a good way.
You can’t make this up. War criminal Lavrov arrives to Alaska wearing a USSR sweater
The Russians aren’t even bothering to hide their bloody imperialist ambitions on US soil
The Russians aren’t even bothering to hide their bloody imperialist ambitions on US soil
August 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
There was a time when Lavrov was considered a serious diplomat. … Is he consciously aping Melania Trump in sending his true thoughts via an item of clothing. Or is he referencing Vance’s attack on Zelensky’s lack of office wear? Is this the Russian war attire? The mind boggles. Not in a good way.
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Lawrow kommt im CCCP-UdSSR-TShirt. Russland will eine neue Weltordnung, bekämpft den Rechtsstaat + Freiheit und verstößt jeden Tag gegen das Völkerrecht. Und AfD/Rechtsextreme + rechte Blogger schweigen 🤐 , weil sie Putin lieben und Diktaturen eigentlich ganz geil finden.
August 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Lawrow kommt im CCCP-UdSSR-TShirt. Russland will eine neue Weltordnung, bekämpft den Rechtsstaat + Freiheit und verstößt jeden Tag gegen das Völkerrecht. Und AfD/Rechtsextreme + rechte Blogger schweigen 🤐 , weil sie Putin lieben und Diktaturen eigentlich ganz geil finden.
Fascinating interpretation by Dugin of Perestroika as a headless chicken (his post is shown as a screenshot) running but not functioning. Fascinating parallels also made with 1917 and today. All is not well in the land of the Russian nationalists.
Gestern hat Dugin viele Posts gemacht, an denen man sieht, dass die Nationalisten das Treffen Putins mit Trump als Zeichen großer Schwäche sehen. Er warnt vor Zerfall und fordert Systemwechsel. Hier vergleicht er 2025 mit 1917 & 1991: Ein Land scheint stabil, hat aber eigentlich keine Führung mehr.
August 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Fascinating interpretation by Dugin of Perestroika as a headless chicken (his post is shown as a screenshot) running but not functioning. Fascinating parallels also made with 1917 and today. All is not well in the land of the Russian nationalists.
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Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
July 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
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Catch the recording of our recent discussion on how propaganda fuels Russia’s war against Ukraine—shaping narratives, justifying aggression, and undermining democracy. Featuring @teresafm.bsky.social @jcaf.bsky.social and Volodymyr Yermolenko, moderated by @flampert.bsky.social
Propaganda: shaping narratives in times of war
This episode is a recording of a public event held by Central European University in Vienna.
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July 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Catch the recording of our recent discussion on how propaganda fuels Russia’s war against Ukraine—shaping narratives, justifying aggression, and undermining democracy. Featuring @teresafm.bsky.social @jcaf.bsky.social and Volodymyr Yermolenko, moderated by @flampert.bsky.social