Alexander Etkind
Alexander Etkind, a former reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History at King’s College, Cambridge, is a professor of history at the European University Institute in Florence.
Alexander Etkind, a former reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History at King’s College, Cambridge, is a professor of history at the European University Institute in Florence.
Russia's return to dictatorship does not represent any form of continuity with the country's imperial ambition, cultural traditions, or national character. As the Ukraine crisis shows, President Vladi… read more
This past June, Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest men, agreed to lead a political party to contest December’s parliamentary elections, seeming to believe that his business experience would bo… read more
Whereas Soviet ideology was always oriented toward the future, today’s official Russian ideology is focused squarely - and almost obsessively - on the past. Vladimir Putin typifies this ideology, whic… read more
Few Russian policymakers, much less the Russian public, expected oil and gas prices to collapse as they have. If prices remain stagnant at current levels, the regime that Vladimir Putin created - one … read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s anointment of Alexander Medvedev to succeed him shows that Russia’s leaders have not changed a whit. Putin's goal now will be to construct an omnipresent political p… read more
