The October Revolution and Soviet-African Encounters: The Challenges of Entangled Internationalisms

About the Author

Dr. Steffi Marung (SFB 1199 & Leipzig University)

Steffi Marung is senior researcher at the Global and European Studies Institute of Leipzig University, Director of its Global Studies Programme as well as PI of “’Free radicals’? Political mobilities and post-colonial processes of re-spatialization in the second half of the 20th century“ at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 at Leipzig University.

Specializing on global connections of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, she teaches global history at Leipzig and Addis Ababa University. Holding a PhD in Global Studies from Leipzig University, she studied political science and German literature in Halle, Berlin and Prague. Currently, her research addresses more broadly socialist mobilities of activists and experts from Eastern Europe and the Global South during the 20th century, as well as debates on international development with a focus on the “agrarian question”, while she works on a book project investigating Soviet African Studies during the Cold War.