Policing in Central and Eastern Europe

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel approaches the theme of policing in Central and Eastern Europe across a variety of periods and contexts. Panelists will explore: how policing practices changed—or persisted—during and after major conflicts and geopolitical transformations and within different ideological settings (imperial, fascist, socialist); what defined relationships between police forces and resident populations; and how states sought to reform, control, and deploy their police and to what ends.

Sub Unit

• History: 1900-1945

Chair

• Holly Case, Brown U

Papers

• Suing the Police in Socialist Poland - Joachim von Puttkamer, U of Jena (Germany)

• Perpetrator, Firefighter, Soldier, Cop: The Many Roles of the Order Auxiliary Police in German-Occupied Latvia - Harry Merritt, U of Vermont

• Interpol’s Roots in Post-Habsburg Europe - David Petruccelli, Dartmouth College

Discussant

• Cristina Vatulescu, New York U