Doc. PhDr. Michal Pullmann, Ph.D.

Doc. PhDr. Michal Pullmann, Ph.D.

Michal Pullmann is appointed a visiting professor at the Chair of East European History in the Summer Semester 2023.

Box: 11
Phone: +49 7531 88-3821
Room: F 348

E-Mail: michal.pullmann@uni-konstanz.de


Fields of research

  • European social and economic history
  • State socialism, economic and social history of dictatorships
  • Historiography, methodology of history

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2013

Habilitation (degree “Docent”) in Modern Social and Economic History, Charles University Prague

2003

PhD. in Social and Economic History, Charles University Prague

1999–2000

Institute of History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin/Center for Comparative History of Europe, Freie Universität Berlin - DAAD-fellow

1998

M.A. degree in History and Sociology, Charles University Prague

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Professional Career

Since 2001

Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

2018-2022

Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University

2016/2017

Visiting fellow at the Institute of History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany (funded by the Alexander von Humboldt-foundation)

Spring 2015

Visiting fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Fall 2014

Visiting Fellow at the Institute of History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany (funded by the DAAD-foundation)

Winter semester 2008/2009

Visiting lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany (courses on contemporary history of the Central-Eastern Europe)

 
 

Publications

Full List of Publications

Selected Publications

Monographs

Konec experimentu. Přestavba a pád komunismu v Československu [The End of Experiment. Perestroika and the Demise of Communism in Czechoslovakia], Scriptorium Prague 2011.

With Kolář, Pavel: Co byla normalizace? Studie o pozdním socialismu [What was normalization? Essays on the Late Socialism], Nakladatelství Lidové noviny – ÚSTR Prague 2016.

Edited Volumes

With Brenner, Christiane - Tippner, Anja (eds.): After Utopia. Czechoslovak Normalization between Experiment and Experience, 1968–1989, Vandenhoeck Ruprecht, Göttingen 2022.

With Zimmermann, Volker (eds.): Ordnung und Sicherheit, Devianz und Kriminalität im Staatssozialismus. Tschechoslowakei und DDR 1948/49–1989, Vandenhoeck Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014.

Articles and book chapters

The Ideological Face of Normalisation: Socialist Modernity and the 'Quiet Life', in: McDermott, Kevin - Stibbe, Matthew (eds.): Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe in the Era of Normalisation, 1969-1989, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2022, p. 53-71.

Late Communist Elites and the Demise of State Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1986–1989), in: Donert, Celia - Kladnik, Ana - Sabrow, Martin (eds.): Making Sense of Dictatorship, Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945, Central European University Press, Budapest 2022, p. 61-79

Umstrittene Vergangenheit. Debatten über die kommunistische Herrschaft in Tschechien, in: Osteuropa 71, 4-6 (2021), p. 395-410.

Gustáv Husák (1913–1991): Der Herr mit Vergangenheit, in: Sabrow, Martin - Schattenberg, Susanne (Hgg.), Die letzten Generalsekretäre: Kommunistische Herrschaft im Spätsozialismus, Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, S. 145–172.

The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987-1989: a socio-economic perspective, in: McDermott, Kevin - Stibbe, Matthew (eds.): The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe. From Communism to Pluralism, Manchester University Press, Manchester etc. 2013, S. 154-171

Writing history in the Czech and Slovak republics: an interview with Michal Pullmann, in: Social History 37, 4 (2012), p. 384-401.

Gewalt in der Umbruchzeit der ČSSR, in: Sabrow, Martin (ed.): 1989 und die Rolle der Gewalt, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, p. 337-356.

Vervollkommnung, Intensivierung, Beschleunigung, Perestrojka. Die Planung in den sowjetischen und tschechoslowakischen Wirtschaftsdebatten der achtziger Jahre, in: Schulze Wessel, Martin - Brenner, Christiane (eds.): Zukunftsvorstellungen und staatliche Planung im Sozialismus. Die Tschechoslowakei im ostmitteleuropäischen Kontext 1945-1989, Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2010, p. 253-282.