Egor Shamshurin | Associate Postgraduate
Disciplines
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Contemporary History
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Biography
Since September 2024, Egor Shamshurin has been a doctoral candidate in a joint program between Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France and Humboldt University in Berlin. His research focuses on Soviet collaboration, anti-Soviet propaganda during World War II, and post-war Soviet emigration to the West.
A graduate in journalism from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2019), he took part in a history exchange at Université Paris-Sorbonne (2018) and earned a master’s in modern history (2021) at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, where he worked with Memorial on digitizing archives related to the Gulag and dissidents.
After completing a second master’s degree at Université Lumière Lyon 2 (2021-2023) and an Erasmus exchange at Freie Universität Berlin (2022-2023), he continued his doctoral research under joint supervision between Lyon 2 and Humboldt University and in collaboration with the CERCEC at EHESS (2023-2024). Alongside his academic work, he continues to work with Memorial in exile and volunteers in support of LGBT rights for those affected by the war in Ukraine.
Scholarship
2024 - Full support for a research stay for PhD students (CIERA)
2024 - Mobility scholarship MobiDoc (Lyon 2)
Title of thesis
Soviet intellectual collaboration and anti-communist propaganda on the Eastern Front during the Second World War and the Cold War (1941-1990)Summary of thesis
The thesis project focuses on Soviet intellectual collaboration during the Second World War and the Cold War (1941-1990). The author plans to consolidate a solid conceptual framework and follow three main lines of research. Firstly, he will examine the infrastructure on which the intellectual collaborators operated during the war on the Eastern Front, including the structure of the occupation press and the methods of financing and distribution. It will then analyse collaboration activities during the war, looking at the collaborators' dependence on German policy, as well as issues related to anti-Semitism and nationalism in the USSR. Finally, it will look at what happened to the former collaborators after the war, examining their activities alongside the Western allies, their relations with the Soviet regime, and their continued use of anti-communist propaganda.
Projects
2024 – Spurren des Stalinismus (Traces of Stalinism) – an educational project by Memorial Zukunft and Memorial Deutschland aimed at migrants from the post-Soviet space. This project seeks to promote better integration of migrants into a democratic society and to counter the spread of right-wing populist ideas, which have become particularly widespread in recent years among migrants from the post-Soviet space. The project includes organizing excursions, reading clubs, events, and seminars on the Soviet occupation regime in East Germany and the SED dictatorship. The project is supported by the Berlin Senate and the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.
Organisation of Events
12-13 april 2024 – Fourth Conference in Memory of Arseny Roginsky– History and Historians in the Post-Truth Era: Monopoly, Polyphony, Cacophony?