Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century (PDF)

Jörn Happel is professor of Eastern European and East-Central European History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg (Germany) 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. is a research assistant at the Chair of Eastern European and East-Central European History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. Her research focuses Stalinism and political repressions in the European context, memory cultures and politics, and practices of remembrance and commemoration in post-socialist states. She is author of "Russlands Letzte Adressen. Gesellschaftliches Erinnern an die Opfer des Stalinismus" (Russia's Last Addresses. Civil commemoration of Stalin's victims, 2022).

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 on economic experiments in the late Soviet Union. Other research interests include the cultural history of apocalypse and socialist architecture. Together with Louis M. Berger and Alexander Schnickmann he published the edited volume "Leben am Ende der Zeiten. Wissen, Praktiken und Zeitvorstellungen der Apokalypse" (Life at the end of time. Knowledge, practices and concepts of time of the apocalypse, 2021).