Private Space in the Soviet Union: A Conversation with Susan E. Reid and Joes Segal

Cold War Spaces: An Online Discussion Series

The first Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Joes Segal, the Wende Museum’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming, and Susan E. Reid, a Professor of Transnational and Modern European History at the Department of History, Durham University, as well as Visiting Professor of Cultural and Visual History at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University.

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An online program reflecting on space as a gateway to cultural history, the Wende Museum presents this series of weekly interviews asking questions about Cold War spaces.

How does space impact the way we live and experience our environment? What did private space really mean under socialism? What was the function of public space between state planning and private appropriation? Who was sent to the secluded spaces of prisons, mental institutions, and gulags? Which global connections were established in spite or because of Cold War borders? What imaginary spaces were created by art, science fiction, and utopian dreaming? And how did all these spaces change after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union?