At the end of June, a conference was held in Basel to launch the joint Ukrainian-Swiss research project “Testing the Soviet Utopia: The Social History of Technologies in Ukraine, 1922-1991”. The project aims to decentralize the understanding of Soviet technologies through critical research into their use in Soviet Ukrainian daily life. The conference also featured case studies from Romania, Poland, Lithuania, and Central Asia, that examined the connections between technology, culture, political objectives, and socialist modernization.
Read more about it in the conference report by Iryna Adamska (Kyiv), Saskia Heyn (Basel) and Olha Martynyuk (Basel): Understanding Techno-Utopias Across the East-West Divide: Creators, Enablers, and Audiences
Adamska, Iryna; Heyn, Saskia; Martynyuk, Olha: Understanding Techno-Utopias Across the East-West Divide: Creators, Enablers, and Audiences, infoclio.ch Tagungsberichte, 09.10.2025. Online: <https://www.doi.org/10.13098/infoclio.ch-tb-0403>.
