Doc. PhDr. Michal Pullmann, Ph.D.
![](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/8/csm_Pullmann_8eb6207e3f.jpg)
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
__________________
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
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.