Jochen Hellbeck

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Columbia University

At Rutgers since 2003

217A Van Dyck
848-932-8230
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

A historian of Russia by background, I am particularly interested in studying autobiographical accounts and people’s self-understandings in historical perspective. My first book, Revolution on My Mind (2006), explores personal diaries written in the Soviet Union under Stalin. The book addresses the paradox of self-expression in an overtly repressive political system. It also shows how Soviet diarists, while embracing the pronoun "I," molded themselves into particles of a larger "We."

I am currently preparing a cultural history of the clash of the Germans and the Soviets at Stalingrad. The project seeks to understand the competing appeals of Soviet and Nazi German ideologies through an examination of the thoughts and actions of the people who lived, fought, and died in the battle of Stalingrad (1942/43), on all sides of the front.  My edition of the "Stalingrad Protocols", a book of unknown interviews with Red Army soldiers conducted in Stalingrad during the final stages of the battle, will be published in fall 2012 in German and Russian.

As a member of the Rutgers graduate faculty I work with students interested in the cultural, political, and intellectual history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union, and in transnational explorations of Communism, WW II, and the Cold War. I encourage applicants to the graduate program in any of these areas to email me before the application deadline.

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