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Posts tagged as “Putin”

Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia by Timothy Frye

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a discussion with Timothy Frye, author of Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia (Princeton University Press, April 6, 2021), in conversation with Alexander Cooley (director,…

Navalny and the Kremlin: Politics and Protest in Russia

Join us for another virtual meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Seminar. This panel is co-hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Register for the Zoom webinar: http://bit.ly/3cm5Qsh. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3prucEK.  The arrest of opposition politician Alexei Navalny has generated a political crisis in Russia. Upon…

It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia

The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political adversaries, with Dugin and his organizations strongly supporting Putin’s regime while Limonov and his groups became…

How to Make Precarious Russia Habitable – or, What Russians Want in Putin’s Fourth Term

This talk is about ethnographic research Professor Morris carried out in ‘small town’ Russia and beyond since 2009. In this talk, Professor Morris will review the main ideas of his book Everyday Postsocialism: that even in contexts characterised by deindustrialisation, loss, and precarity, ordinary people do more than just ‘get by’ – they actively make their social environment habitable in numerous…