Mirrored Reality
Eastern Europe and the Public Sphere in Transition
Osteuropa 1-3/2025
Berlin 2025 [ = Osteuropa, 1–3/2025]
472 pages, 55 figures, 2 maps
Price: 32,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-5646-6
Deutsche Fassung
Contents
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Editorial - Gerd Koenen
The Fatal Nexus
Germany and Russia 1925-2025 - Christian Neef
The Balancing Act of Reporting
Paul Scheffer, Hermann Pörzgen, Gerd Ruge - Markus Ackeret
„I No Longer Write about Some Topics“
On working in Moscow 100 Years of Osteuropa
- Cord Aschenbrenner
A Reading Journalist’s Thoughts
Eastern Europe – “More Substance than Appearance” - Manfred Sapper
In the Spirit of the Times and against the Grain
Osteuropa, 1925-2025: A History - Otto Hoetzsch: Germany and Russia
Some introductory remarks
Dokumentation - Paul Ingendaay
Pact of the Free
A Magazine Opposed to the Destruction of Thinking - Jens Bisky
Counsel for the Written Word
The Anachronistic Nature of Editorial Work - Felix Eick
A Painful Realisation
How Osteuropa Texts “Function” in the Online Era - Aurelia Ohlendorf
Thinking Aids
Maps in Eastern Europe - Gwendolyn Sasse
At the Interface
Academia and the Public. Reflections Eastern Europe in Focus
- Dietrich Beyrau
Change of Perspective
Historical Research on Eastern Europe - Karl Schlögel
My Eastern Europe
An Attempt to Summarise - Kristiane Janeke
Repressed, Forgotten, Neglected
The War against Poland and the Soviet Union - Anke Hilbrenner
“World Champions in Remembrance” with Blinders
The Late Look at the Holocaust in Eastern Europe - Ulrich Schmid
“Distant Countries about Which We Know Little”
The Politicized Reception of East European Literature, 1946–1989 - Katharina Raabe
A World in the Shadows
Eastern European Readings, 1989–2025 - Dorothea Redepenning
The Sound of the Century
Music from the Soviet Union in the German States - Roland Götz
Reforming What Couldn’t Be Reformed
The Soviet Economy and Its Reforms in Osteuropa General Public and Society in Transition
- Astrid Sahm
Civil Society by the Grace of Lukashenka?
Social Structural Change in Belarus - Diana Dutsyk, Andreas Umland
Between Freedom and Censorship
Ukrainian Media in Times of War - Florian Töpfl
Repression and Brutalisation
Russia’s War and the Transformation of Public Life - Ksenija Lučenko
Against Censorship and War
Independent Media in Exile and in Russia - Birger Schütz
The Downfall of a Beacon of Hope
Freedom of the Press and Public Life in Kyrgyzstan - Felix Sandalov
Difficult Counter-Public
Russian Publishers in Emigration - Philipp Christoph Schmädeke
Academia in Exile
Structural Problems, Challenges, Perspectives Elements of a Digital Public Space
- Felix Ackermann
From Telegraph to Telegram
Digital Platforms in Russia and Ukraine - Wanja Müller
Nationalization of Odnoklassniki
Classmates in Digital Authoritarianism - Taras Nazaruk
A Decade of Telegram
Freedom of Expression and Security Concerns - Gundula Pohl
Content Creator in Uniform
Belarus’s “Genocide” Campaign on YouTube - Hanna Horn
Intermediate Media World
LiveJournal as a Refuge for Belarusian Voices