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
come and meet Azazello.
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
come and meet Azazello.
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.
We had a famous visitor at the institute. We did our best to make sure that Ukraine would remain on his mind - and possibly more. He then stumbled into our Europast summer school - to the horror of his security detail. Time will tell if our pleas for more funding for Ukr. researchers will be heard.
June 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We had a famous visitor at the institute. We did our best to make sure that Ukraine would remain on his mind - and possibly more. He then stumbled into our Europast summer school - to the horror of his security detail. Time will tell if our pleas for more funding for Ukr. researchers will be heard.
I then asked AI why it was making up fake facts. I received plenty of apology and obsequiousness, but no real regret in the sense that it admitted that it had deceived me.
May 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I then asked AI why it was making up fake facts. I received plenty of apology and obsequiousness, but no real regret in the sense that it admitted that it had deceived me.
This is what I got back.
May 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is what I got back.
Now in the Kreisky Forum in Vienna. The times are bleak. The women are smart. Franziska Davies dissects recent events. Fazit: terrible as it is, we now face the reality of possible scenarios we knew for many months. Neither suits nor ties nor apologies altered or will alter the course of events.
March 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Now in the Kreisky Forum in Vienna. The times are bleak. The women are smart. Franziska Davies dissects recent events. Fazit: terrible as it is, we now face the reality of possible scenarios we knew for many months. Neither suits nor ties nor apologies altered or will alter the course of events.
Yesterday a year ago our friend and colleague Jan Plamper died after a long illness. He, his wit, generosity and clear-headed yet compassionate judgment are much missed. Every day really. His books survive him but cannot replace his warm friendship and intellectual companionship.
December 1, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Yesterday a year ago our friend and colleague Jan Plamper died after a long illness. He, his wit, generosity and clear-headed yet compassionate judgment are much missed. Every day really. His books survive him but cannot replace his warm friendship and intellectual companionship.
It is already a few weeks ago that I wandered through Kyiv on a beautiful autumn day. It was reassuring to see that everything was still there - archive, coffee shops, good food, people. Olha had got a new best since I saw her last.
November 16, 2024 at 1:08 PM
It is already a few weeks ago that I wandered through Kyiv on a beautiful autumn day. It was reassuring to see that everything was still there - archive, coffee shops, good food, people. Olha had got a new best since I saw her last.
Long in the making… mea culpa.
November 24, 2023 at 9:55 PM
Long in the making… mea culpa.
What is left of history? Looking forward to my cameo appearance at the Cottbus Festival of East European Film. And refreshing to see German films classified as East European. Gives a new perspective.
November 9, 2023 at 4:34 PM
What is left of history? Looking forward to my cameo appearance at the Cottbus Festival of East European Film. And refreshing to see German films classified as East European. Gives a new perspective.
