Authors

Alexei Kouprianov¹; Jakob Reuster²; Jussi Hyväinen³; Daniel Bißmann⁴; Katerina Belenkina⁵;  ¹ FSO Bremen, Germany;  ² Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Germany;  ³ National Library of Finland, Finland;  ⁴ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V., Germany;  ⁵ Blinken OSA Archivum, Germany

Discussion

Russia's war on Ukraine has fundamentally changed the way in which the history of Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space can be researched. While collecting sources has become more difficult, and access to archives in the Russian Federation is virtually closed to researchers from Europe and the US, preserving knowledge about the region and its historical background seems more important than ever. Therefore, historians need to develop new strategies to cope with these losses - strategies that may involve turning to source material and archival collections provided by institutions outside the Russian Federation, but also starting new collections of sources and the networking of resources to make them more accessible.

The roundtable organized by the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe addresses those questions in two ways: it aims, on the one hand, to present the work of organisations from different European countries that hold resources on Eastern European and Eurasian history and, on the other hand, to bring these institutions into conversation with one another, thus stimulating dialogue in this important field. It will be accompanied by a poster exhibition, which will introduce more organisations working in the field alongside the panel participants.