Dr. Alexej Lochmatow

alexej.lochmatow@uni-erfurt.de

Dr. Alexej Lochmatow

Research Project: The Bodies of Intelligences and their Environments

The project explores various discourses of intelligence as reflection of diverse social and political theories. The focus of the project lies on the collective dimensions of ‘intelligence’, i.e. the social and political constracts that have been conceived as bearers of ‘intelligence.’ In various contexts, the entire humanity, civilization, a state, a nation, a society, a social class, individual professions or gender-related groups could become such 'bodies' of intelligence. Dealing with this issues, the project focuses on the sources in German, Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Research Areas

  • Modern History

  • History of Knowledge 

  • History of Science and Scholarship

  • History of Intelligence Research

Selected Publications

  • 2025 (accepted for publication) The Masters and Victims of Partisanship: Arnošt Kolman and Adam Schaff on the crossroads of partisan science, in Science in Context Vol. 37 (2)
  • 2025 (in print) Sovietization, in: Katrin Steffen, Maciej Górny, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk (eds.), Routledge History of Poland, London/New York: Routledge.
  • 2023 Review: Blut und Metall. Die transnationalen Wissensräume von Ludwik Hirszfeld und Jan Czochralski im 20. Jahrhundert Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021, in: NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin. Link
  • 2022  ‘Periodisations’ in Intellectual History: On the Plurality of Continuities in the post-war Public Debates of Poland, in: Jade McGlynn, Lucian George (Eds.): Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture, Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 149 – 174. Link
  • 2021 Review: Izabela Wagner, Bauman: A Biography, Cambridge: Polity Press 2020, in: Acta Poloniae Historica, Vol. 123, pp. 353 – 362. Link
  • 2021 The Academic Virtues in Public Discussion: Adam Schaff and the Campaign against the Lvov-Warsaw School in Post-War Poland, in: Studia Historiae Scientiarum, Vol. 20, pp. 711–753. Link
  • 2020 Auf dem Weg zur „Einheit“: Józef Chałasiński und die Suche nach einer „erlaubten“ Genealogie der Soziologie im Nachkriegspolen (1945–1951), in: NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, Vol. 28 (4), pp. 519–546. Link
  • 2019 The „Scientific View“ of the Intelligentsia: The Literary Roots of Scholarly Public Debates in Post-War Poland (1946–1948), in: HISTORYKA. Studia Metodologiczne Vol. 49, pp. 77–100 Link
  • 2019 Review: Science Overcoming Borders, hrsg. von Věra Dvořáčková, Martin Franc. Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR: Praha, 2018., in: Acta Poloniae Historica, Vol. 119, S. 350–357. Link
  • 2019 Theory in Action: French Personalism in the Public Debates of Post-war Poland, in: Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti XXV, pp. 277–293. Link

  • 2019 Conceptualising „Anti-Zionism“: Piasecki’s Group as an Intellectual Resource for the 1968 Antisemitic Campaign in People’s Poland, in: Europa Orientalis. Studi e ricerche sui paesi dell'Est europeo, 38 (2019), pp. 103–118. Link

     

 

An Interview for New Books Network (Link)

Short lectures for the German Historical Institute Warsaw  "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland" (Links: I, II III)

"Virtues as a Lens: Exploring Science, Scholarship, and Politics under Soviet Domination" for the Blog "History of Knowledge: Research, Resources, and Perspectives" (Link)

HIRA Book Launch: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland (Link)