Heroization of Work in China and Russia between 1920 and 1960 (D08*)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

The project will study the figure of the worker hero in China and Russia between 1920 and 1960 and place them in the context of global historical processes of the heroization of work. In particular, it will focus on the interactions and transfer processes between the two communist systems in the formation and development of the system of the worker heroes and determine in comparative perspective the specific features of the discourse and social practice of the worker heroes in specific communist contexts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 948: Heroes - Heroisations - Heroisms. Transformations and Conjunctures from Antiquity to the Modern Age
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Dietmar Neutatz; Professorin Dr. Nicola Spakowski