Maike Lehmann

After 20 years as an academic, I am currently chief communications officer and academic manager of the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe, a decentred academic network with offices in Helsinki, Vilnius and Tbilisi.

Academically speaking, my current research focuses on the rules of non/belonging in the late Soviet Union with a particular interest in how kul'turnost' shaped intersubjective relationships and (imperial) situations in different multiethnic and social contexts. I am also working on exiled Soviet intellectuals' encounter with the West in the 1970s and 1980s.