Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century

Marcus Colla is Associate Professor of Modern European Political History at the University of Bergen, Norway. Previously, he was the Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow in History at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. His first book, Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic: Communists and Kings, was published in 2022. Further publications have appeared in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, History and Theory, Journal of Contemporary History, Central European History, European Review of History, German History, and Contemporary European History.

Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History in St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, UK. He has published widely on modern European history, including most recently Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after World War II (2022), and a co-written volume entitled Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation (2023). He has also co-edited seven volumes, among them Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe (2016), with Stephen Smith.