Olaf Scholz certainly wasn’t thinking of Eastern European studies on Feb. 27, 2022, when he spoke of the turning point. Term or not, the caesura caused by Russia’s major attack on Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 is profound and requires a rethink that will affect many different but ultimately interconnected areas. This necessity does not stop at research on Eastern Europe, which deals with questions that help explain the war, documents it empirically and is confronted with the task of categorizing the events for the public and filling gaps in knowledge.