Join the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University for a talk with three authors on their recent books about conservatism in Russia.

Paul Robinson’s "Russian Conservatism" takes a long historical view of the phenomenon. For the past two centuries Russian conservatives have sought to adapt to the pressures of modernization and westernization and, more recently, globalization, while preserving national identity and political and social stability. Through Robinson's research we can now understand how Russian conservatives have continually proposed forms of cultural, political and economic development seen as building on existing traditions, identity, forms of government, and economic and social life, rather than being imposed on the basis of abstract theory and foreign models.

"Contemporary Russian Conservatism," edited by Mikhail Suslov and Dmitry Uzlaner, offers the first comprehensive study of the “conservative turn” in Russia under Putin. The book features in-depth discussions of the historical dimensions of conservatism, the contemporary international context, the theoretical conceptualization of conservatism and empirical case studies. Among various issues covered by the volume are the geopolitical and religious dimensions of conservatism and the conservative perspective on Russian history and the politics of memory. The authors show that conservative ideology condenses and reworks a number of discussions about Russia’s identity and its place in the world.

RSVP is requested; information can be found at this link.

Speakers:

Paul Robinson, professor of public and international Affairs, University of Ottawa

Mikhail Suslov, assistant professor of Russian history and politics, department of cross-cultural and regional studies, University of Copenhagen

Dmitry Uzlaner, researcher, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Russia) and University of Innsbruck (Austria); editor-in-chief of the journal State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide