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Juliane Fürst

@jcaf.bsky.social
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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

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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This much for academia being somehow above or outside the war: this is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and these are our colleagues, engaged in the same work we do. This is also late punishment for the instrumental role the Academy played in the late 1980s in the struggle for independence.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When discussing historical memory and Stolpersteine in Heidenau, it's worth remembering what happened there last time Nazis seized complete control of the town gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/p...
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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In Oleschky, im Süden der Ukraine, entwickelt sich eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Eine junge Frau, die noch in der Stadt ist, schreibt der ARD in einer SMS: „Ich esse nur einmal, am Abend. Fladenbrot mit gesalzener Tomate, dazu Tee.“ Wichtiger Beitrag von Florian Kellermann.
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Frontstadt in der Ukraine: "Jetzt beginnt dort echter Hunger"
Seit Mai leben die Menschen in Oleschky von Vorräten und dem, was sie im Sommer geerntet haben. Der Hunger nimmt in der von Russen besetzten Frontstadt jeden Tag zu. Nur wenigen gelingt die Flucht - d...
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Precious because for the first time in my life I am not sure, if I see out my days in a democracy and meaningful because, keeping an eye on the Russian election, I know how meaningless voting can be.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I exercised my democratic right to vote today. While my candidates never win, it felt meaningful and precious.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/09/2026
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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Editorial: The world must force Russia to end mass starvation in occupied Oleshky
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia. The town of Oleshky and its surrounding district in t...
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I hope Witkoff and Kushner see the sheer beauty of Kyiv, its delicacy and softness and layers of history. It might give it a face when they read about the next missile attack. But they are property developers, so I should not hope too strongly.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Happy 35th Independence Day, Ukraine.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Da war ich heute auch. Wir hätten uns mal kennenlernen können.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sun eclipse in Bavaria. Always a good excuse to get the Alphorn out.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Merkel‘s actions or inactions, which proved fatal for what she wanted to achieve, have to be seen in the context of Germany’s own history of war, defeat and guilt. They created a complex psychological climate, especially in Merkel’s generation, in which negotiations and compromise became a fetish.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Merkel was not referring to war with Germany nor was her sole motive oil and gas, even though it allowed her to pull out of nuclear energy. Merkel, like many Germans, has been socialised to make peace paramount to everything else, which blinded her to see the point of no return.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Schwer zu sehen, wie das ethische Vakuum der Russlandpolitik sich nicht auch nach innen ausdrücken würde.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I remember standing in those late-Soviet lines as a kid. The Public Aesthetics of the line are terrible. And the Gas Line is the opposite of Kuran's preference falsification: a public assembly of everyone privately doubting the government’s capacity to provide basic necessities.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Pretty good analysis of British academia’s malaise which made me leave (plus Brexit). The unnecessary destruction of a system that functioned well through the cult of management. My condolences to my colleagues in Exeter. open.substack.com/pub/johnheat...
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The Crisis in Britain’s Universities
The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrate the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Dieses Titelblatt wird durch Dutzende von Händen gegangen sein und keiner hat sich erinnert, dass es so was wie die Sowjetunion gab, die nicht mit Russland identisch war. Erstaunlich.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
One of the casualties of the US -Israeli attack on Iran is the memory of the tens of thousands of protesters killed by the Iranian regime just a few weeks before. Trump has allowed brutal bullies to be recast as victims, probably pushing the chance of political change in Iran back by decades.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It is not surprising Russia targeted the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv. I spent hours in their exhibition a few years ago and left with an overwhelming sense of doom caused by systemic failure, yet mitigated by the actions of conscientious individuals. Chornobyl is the anti-story to imperial grandeur.
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Denis Trubetskoy @denistrubetskoy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Wie mein gestriger Tag in Kyjiw so verlief. Ein längerer persönlicher Text von mir zum massiven russischen Luftangriff und auch zu den bemerkenswerten Momenten danach, die trotz allem aufmuntern. www.n-tv.de/politik/Ich-...
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Ich liege im Flur, als die Rakete im Haus gegenüber einschlägt
Die Bewohner Kiews haben unzählige Luftangriffe hinter sich. Die Nacht zu Sonntag sprengt aber jedes bisherige Maß. Auch mir kommt der russische Tod plötzlich ganz nahe. So schockierend dieser Moment ...
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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Die Ukraine hat einen der massivsten russischen Luftangriffe durchlebt. Hunderte Drohnen, Dutzende Raketen, Tote, Verletzte, heftige Zerstörung. Druckwellen haben auch das ARD-Studio Kyjiw erreicht. Unser Team ist zum Glück unverletzt. Die Statik des Gebäudes muss geprüft werden.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Starting every (well most) days, not knowing what it will bring in terms of intellectual engagement. Archives and sources Other historians.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Yes. And the reverse is also true.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What a wonderful validation of Henrike’s work.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Finally a collaboration worth its name. Leave it to women to find a common, anti-imperialist language. I suspect that this will remain the highlight of this year‘s biennale. kyivindependent.com/pussy-riot-f...
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Pussy Riot, Femen storm Russian pavilion at Venice Biennale
Police on the premises tackled members from the feminist protest groups who were able to make it inside the building, according to a joint press release.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
He is hardly the feminist calling for the legalisation of abortion and criminalisation of rape in the marriage though.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am in awe of this very British linguistic construction: a subjective qualifier preceding a verb embodying uncertainty. An amazing feat of hedging your words.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The Soviet Union collapsed under an emotional overload of pain and disillusionment, but also hope for something better. The catastrophe of Chornobyl was a major catalyst in setting this process in motion.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Incompatible with local interests. Chornobyl was also instrumental in creating an independent local press, whose founding ethos was the revelation of hidden truths. Ultimately, the many truths that were raining down on the Soviet people in the following years were too much for the system.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Became common currency even among people who so far had never thought of Ukrainianness as separate from Sovietness. Now and in the following years when the true costs of the disaster became visible - child mortality, untreatable illnesses, deserted landscapes - Sovietness seemed increasingly
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This sense was particularly acute in Kyiv, which was ordered to hold its annual May Day parade despite huge radiation levels. Ukraine had been designated as the Soviet nuclear provider and to have even more nuclear power stations to be built. A sense of betrayal and colonial exploitation
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The callousness of officials far away in Moscow, who valued silence over swift evacuation and calls for international help strengthened the sense of Soviet citizens that they did not matter in the system. That indeed they were no citizens but expandable subjects. Rumours replaced information.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The accident itself confirmed people’s suspicion that the Soviet Union was not, or never had been, the shining beacon of technological progress, which it seemed to be in the times of Gagarin. The dilapidation and disorder of public institution was evident to all, but now it was shattered.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The official silence that followed reminded people of all the silences that had come before and had covered up crimes and brutalities: the violence of collectivisation, the purges, the postwar deportations, repressions of demonstrations and dissent. Every Soviet family knew this silence.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
40 years ago one of the reactors of the nuclear station of Chornobyl went into meltdown and exploded. The consequences of this event still reverberate today, not least in the ongoing struggle for independence by Ukraine and Belarus. The accident ripped off the plaster covering past Soviet wounds.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Also on holiday but reading novels. I seem to remember that the image was exposed not to be of Brezhnev himself. I used to use it in my classes and then dropped it, because of its alleged inauthenticity. Too lazy and too poor internet to do research on it now.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I think this image was exposed as being taken from a film.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The driver of the car is wearing shorts. Not really done in Iran. Indeed not really possible. Iran is not some alternative version of Florida, even if all these pictures might depict some places in Iran.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I have walked this street many times. As have millions of Russian tourists. But the times when shock still had value have probably passed a long time ago. Oh beautiful Lviv. My heart breaks for you.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Congratulations. Well deserved.
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The historic Bernardine Monastery in Lviv, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site, is on fire after a russian drone attack. 🎥 Xenia Gerke on Facebook
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Martina Winkler @martinawinkle14.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Bei all dem Furchtbaren um uns herum droht das Leiden in der Ukraine unterzugehen. @arturweigandt.bsky.social kämpft nach wie vor für die Menschen dort. Wir können ihm helfen.
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Wilson Voight @radiospanishspeak.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
tech.....
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We truly live in an age that proves that destruction is much easier than construction, that creating negativity is much easier than positive affirmation, and that no man is too stupid or too evil to wreck things for all. And I have several candidates in mind here.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
„Honestly, I am convinced that real performance in graduate school wasn’t understanding these men. The real performance was pretending you did.“ Amen. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
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Rest in Peace, Habermas and the Long Tradition of White Men Who Thought Confusion Was Genius
Y’all, Habermas died over the weekend.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Babies running academia.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Display of items confiscated at Tbilisi airport. And I was worried about the pickled cabbage in my hand luggage.
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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Rustaveli Avenue now, on day 465 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In fact he was missing the wall coming down because he was teaching me (among others) a class at Dartmouth. He introduced me to Christa Wolf, Borchert, Heiner Müller and Böll. It was a memorable class, punctured by a historical event nobody expected.
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