Rainer Lindner

Universität Konstanz | Uni-Konstanz · Department of History and Sociology

Dieses Buch ist ein Zeitzeugnis: Eine Geschichte Russlands vom Aufstieg zur europäischen Großmacht bis zum Untergang des sowjetischen Imperiums im Jahr 1991. Dietrich Geyer, einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Osteuropahistoriker hat in seiner letzten Tübinger Vorlesung die Geschichte Russlands von der Thronbesteigung der Romanovs 1613 bis zum Zerfal...

The course of the presidential election in Belarus and the actions against the opposition, German commerce and industry faces questions as to how to deal with this country. Belarus must urgently modernise its economy and is at the same time dependent on foreign investors. A policy of conditional cooperation is needed. For collaboration, reforms are...

Voter fraud, brutal violence against demonstrators, arrests, and repression: There should be no more doubts about the character of the Lukashenka regime. But why this escalation? And how should the European Union react: The "policy of dialog" with Minsk has failed. But the policy of isolation did not bring the desired results. The Belarus expert As...

The Dniepr is more than a large river in Europe. It was the fountainhead of Slavic Orthodoxy, home to the Cossacks, trade route and lifeline; to this day, it is an economic factor and source of energy. In the 17th century, it was the border between Poland and Russia, and to this day, it is often described as a political divide. The presidential ele...

At the end of September 2007, an early election took place in Ukraine. The election met the standards of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Council of Europe. The constitution of the parliament and the government as well as the redistribution of financial resources are underway. Any government will be able to stabilise...

Belarus is and always has been part of Europe. The country's geographical space has been shaped by the history and culture of the European continent, and as a peripheral region this space has repeatedly been affected by war, occupation, and campaigns of extermination. Since 1991 Belarus has asserted itself as a sovereign state, but by the mid-1990s...

The discipline of East European history is going through a period of change. Some rash critics argued that its significance had declined after 1991, since historians of Eastern Europe seemed to have lost the object of their research along with the political task they had previously performed. As a consequence, savings and cuts were made in funding...

At the beginning of the 1990s, when the former Soviet republics declared sovereignty, the questions of their national histories, long neglected in the Soviet period, once again became important. In taking up the national and cultural traditions of the pre-Soviet era, as well as a literary language that had been reduced to folklore, the post-Soviet...

One of the main options for a post-totalitarian identity is the concept of nation. This is especially important among the intellectual elite of non-dominant ethnic groups or so-called ‘small people’ that were absorbed into empires or multi-ethnic states. Patriotic or even nationalistic identities break through under conditions of nominal independen...

1. Was leistet die Kulturgeschichte? 2. Russische Geschichte als Kulturgeschichte 3. Ausblick 4. Bibliografie