Margarita Pavlova

About me: Margarita Pavlova is a doctoral student and researcher in History and Cultural Studies at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig University Giessen. She obtained a Master of Arts degree in Comparative History from Central European University (Budapest) and a Bachelor of Arts in History from National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (Saint Petersburg).

Currently, she is a member of the Cultural Memory Studies Research Area and Europe’s East Working Group. Her research project focuses on the development of sociocultural self-organization and the forms of (a)political protests in late Soviet Russia. Since February 2021 she also functions as an editorial team member of On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture.

Dissertation working title: Cultural in Form, Political in Content: Sociocultural Associations of Leningrad Underground in Gorbachev’s Russia

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn

Publications

Pavlova, Margarita. “Genealogiia publichnoi sfery v pozdnesovetskom obshchestve: Klub-81 i Gruppa spaseniia pamiatnikov arkhitektury kak primery obshchestvennoi samoorganizatsii v Leningrade [The Genealogy of the Public Sphere in Late Soviet Society: The Klub-81 and the Gruppa Spasenia Pamiatnikov Arkhitektury as Examples of Independent Self-Organization in Leningrad],” in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 164, no. 4 (2020): 65-78.
Pavlova, Margarita. “Memorial ‘Kontsentratsionnyy lager ‘Zaksenkhauzen’’ kak mesto politicheskoy konfrontatsii istoricheskoy pamyati o Vtoroy Mirovoy Voyne v sovremennoy Germanii [Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial as a Place of Political Confrontation of the Historical Memory on the Second World War in Modern Germany],” in How Communism Shaped Our World, edited by Schwalbe Klara, Matej Samide, Nicole Hanisch, Miriam Eisleb, 67-72. Berlin: Pro Universitate Verlag, 2018.
Mary McAuley, Remembering Leningrad: The Story of a Generation (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). 288 pp. IBSN: 978-0-299-32250-2,” Ab Imperio 21, no. 2 (2020): 300-304. Book Review.

Projects

“Modern Comparative History of Constitutions and Minority Rights”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. April 2016 - February 2017. Duties: collected primary sources and visualized the evolution of constitutional development using the tools of the Comparative Constitutions Project.
“History of the End of the Cold War, the Diaries of Teymuraz Stepanov-Mamaladze”, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center. March 2015 - April 2016. Duties: transcripted and provided a primary source with detailed comments.

Research Interests

Presentations

"Public Sphere in Transition: The Club-81 and the Group for Salvation of Monuments as Examples of Civic Self-Organization during the Late Soviet Period”. July 2019. The Annual Conference for Junior Eastern European Scholars “Tagung der Jungen Osteuropa-ExpertInnen Neue Forschungen zu Osteuropa”. Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (FSO) Universität Bremen, Osteuropa-Kolleg NRW, Bochum, Germany.
“Group for Rescue of Monuments in Leningrad: From the Soviet Informal Action to the Post-Soviet Administrative Positions. An Oral History Research” (with Aleksandr Korobeinikov, Central European University, Hungary). March 2018. The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Student Scholarly Society for Humanities “Potluck”. Center for Polish and European Studies. Department of History, Kyiv, Ukraine.
“‘Culture Instead of Politics’ ‘Group for Rescue of Monuments’ as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon of Late Soviet Leningrad, 1986-1990”. June 2017. International Scientific Conference “How Sparkle Creates Flame: Micro Basements of Large-Scale Social Changes”. Center for Comparative History and Political Studies of Perm State National Research University, Perm, Russian Federation.