Jochen hellbeck biography

Hellbeck, Jochen.
Jochen Hellbeck is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.
Jochen Hellbeck studied History and Slavic Literatures at the Free University of Berlin and Indiana University, before obtaining his Ph.D.

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Jochen Hellbeck

Jochen Hellbeck’s research centers on individual life stories and the shaping of the self in modern Europe, with a primary focus on the Soviet Union. He particularly seeks to understand the place of individuals in the context of cataclysmic events of the 20th century: the Russian Revolution, Stalin’s terror regime, and the Second World War. His work research has contributed to a more capacious and humane understanding of the Soviet Union, of World War II, and of how consciousness survived in societies that supposedly eradicated it.

Hellbeck’s first monograph, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (2006), examined the ways in which narratives of redemptive violence and transformation that defined the Soviet project attached themselves to individuals on the ground. It revealed how authors of diaries sought to fashion their lives to become worthy participants of a world historical drama. His most recent book, Stalingrad: the City that Defeated the Third Reich (2015), narrates the Soviet experience of the battle of Stalingrad. The book is based on p

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Jochen Hellbeck

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West German by birth, and a Russian historian by training, Jochen Hellbeck is uniquely qualified to write this book. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2017) for this book, and author most recently of Stalingrad: The City That Defeated the Third Reich(Public Affairs 2015), and the online project “Facing Stalingrad.” He is also the author of Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Harvard University Press 2006).

Books by Jochen Hellbeck

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Jochen Hellbeck

Books
-- Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich (New York: PublicAffairs, 2015). Revised translation of: Die Stalingrad Protokolle. Sowjetische Augenzeugen berichten aus der Schlacht (Frankfurt: S. Fischer, 2012). Also available in Russian, Spanish, and Swedish translations.
-- Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006; Paperback 2009). Russian version: Revoliutsiia ot pervogo litsa. Dnevniki stalinskoi epokhi (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017).
-- Tagebuch aus Moskau 1931-1939 (München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1996).

Articles
-- “The Antifascist Pact: Forging a First Experience of Nazi Occupation in the Wartime Soviet Union,” Slavonic and East European Review 96/1 (January 2018): 117-143.)
-- „Wir werden siegen, wie schon vor 70 Jahren unsere Großväter gesiegt haben.“ Weltkriegsgedenken in der Ukraine im Schatten des neuerlichen Kriegs (with Tetiana Pastushenko and Dmytro Tytarenko), in: Tag des Sieges, ed. Mischa Gabowitsch, Cordula Gdaniec, Katja Makhotina (Paderborn: Schöni