Daria Tashkinova, M.A.
Researcher

Daria Tashkinova, M.A.
Researcher

Daria Tashkinova holds a Master's degree in Global History from the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her thesis focused on labour migration practices in the late Soviet Union, using the example of the job assignment system. After graduating, she worked for several years in German political think tanks, focusing on civil society cooperation and human rights protection in Eastern Europe and Russia. She is currently a PhD candidate in the doc.funds project "The Dynamics of Change and Logics of Transformation: State, Society and Economy at Critical junctures" where she intends to expand on the research she conducted during her Master‘s.

Research interests

  • Late Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Labour migration and its regimes
  • Soviet history in a colonial context
  • History of transformations post-1989
  • Global history
  • Oral history

Current project

’Assignments to Towns of Provincial Importance’: Labour Migration, Empire-Building and the Job Assignment System in the Late Soviet Union.The project aims to examine the job assignment system for graduates of higher education institutions in the late Soviet Union and early post-Soviet period (1975-1995) as a tool for studying the process of Soviet colonial state building. It aims to explore the migration patterns triggered by the system and how they influenced the spread of Soviet ideology with the help of white-collar cadres from the core to the periphery, especially to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The project will also look at developments after the collapse of the USSR to examine the transformation of economic, political and hence educational models from socialist command economy to the demands of the free market, and the adaptability of Soviet education and work models to the emerging independent democracies.