Research

Dr. Yevheniia Shyshkina

Fellow

shyshkina(at)dubnow.de
Phone: +49 341 21735-73

Fellow at the Dubnow Institute since September 2024.

Studied History and Archival Science at the V.Karasin Kharkiv National University from 1999 to 2004. Completed her PhD degree with a specialisation in historiography, source studies and special historical disciplines in 2008; Subject of PhD thesis: »Emergency Paper Money (notes) of Ukraine in 1914–1925 as a Historical Sources«. Research projects at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Kyiv, 2021, at the Moldova-Institut Leipzig e.V., funded by VolkswagenStiftung from 2022 to 2023, and at the Leibniz ScienceCampus »Eastern Europe – Global Area«, Leipzig, in 2024.

Research Project

The Visual-Symbolic Aspect of the Representation of the Jewish Question as a Prerequisite for the Holocaust: on Materials of Municipal and Private Money of European Countries in the Interwar Period (1918–1939)

 

Research Interests

  • Source criticism of emergency paper money, hyperinflation after the collapse of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, propaganda of anti-Semitism on notgelds in Germany and Austria in the interwar period
  • Source criticism of oral history sources, Holocaust, Russian-Ukrainian war
  • Source criticism of digital sources, the Russian-Ukrainian information war, »Russkiy Mir«

Publications

Editorships

Unsagbar: Erlebensgeschichten ukrainischer Frauen über die russische Invasion und Flucht nach Deutschland, Schriftenreihe des Moldova-Instituts Leipzig, Vol. 11, Leipzig 2024 (together with Svitlana Nyzhnikova, Alina Ponypaliak und Svitlana Telukha).

Essays and Articles

The Formation of the Russkiy Mir Propaganda Content: Evolution from “Soft” to “Hard” Power (2006–2014) In: The Bulletin оf Humanities, 7 (2025).

The Educational Concept of “Russkij Mir” as a Weapon of Russian Imperialism, in: Almanac of Ukrainian Studies, 34 (2024), 6–93 (together with Motenko Y.) (Ukr.)

Shaping of the Official Model of Collective Memory about World War II as a Means of Information-Psychological Influence (on the Materials of the Russian Federation), in: Scientific Bulletin of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi University, 2024, nr. 1, 130–138 (together with Motenko Y.).

The Ideology of Neo-Imperialism as a Tool of “Hybrid War”«, in: Historische Mitteilungen, 33 (2022), 33–44. (together with Motenko Y.).

Methodological Basics of Instrumentalization оf History (on Example of the »Course History of the Fatherland« in Secondary Schools of ORDO), in: Almanac of Ukrainian Studies, 29 (2021), 107–112. (together with Motenko Y.) (Ukr.).

Peculiarities of the Production of Wooden and Metal Engraved Printing Forms in Europe in the Middle of the 15th –17th Centuries, in: Grani: scientific-theoretical and socio-political almanac. History. Dnipropetrovs'k: Grani, 125 (2015), nr. 9/1, 78 –82 (Ukr.).

Source Criticism of the Emergency Money of Ukraine (1914–1925): Methodology, Conclusions, Scientific Perspectives, in: Actual Problems of National and World History: Collection of Scientific Papers. Kharkiv: V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 10 (2007), 224–232 (Ukr.).

Currency Notes of the Kharkiv Provincial Zemstvo: History of the Issue Preparation (1918), in: Collection of scientific papers. Series “History and Geography.”, Kharkiv 25/26 (2007), 144 –146 (Ukr).