Dr. Bernd Christoph Ströhm, Postdoctoral University Assistant for Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna. Research and teaching focus centered on the following areas:

- the history of alternative versions of Russian culture during the Soviet period, including the exploration of the resistance to the Soviet totalitarian ideology through samizdat and tamizdat, and their relation to literary and historical developments in the USSR, with a particular emphasis on dissent and nonconformist cultural expression.

- the role of German-language publishing houses and broadcasting companies in West Germany, Austria, and Switzerland as cultural institutions that influenced Soviet policy and diplomacy, with special attention to the activities of journalists and foreign correspondents.

- the collection and analysis of contemporary accounts and oral histories, along with the digitization of foreign-language materials on Russian dissent (cultural and literary) from the 1960s to the 1980s.

- Russian emigration studies, focusing on the survival and transformation of exiled Russian literature in the South Slavic region, especially in Yugoslavia, and the relations between Soviet dissidents and Yugoslav dissidents.

- the journal "Kontinent", examined as a platform for cross-border intellectual and democratic discourse between East and West during the Cold War.

Institut für Slawistik

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 3 (Campus)
1090 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-42831

bernd.christoph.stroehm@univie.ac.at