Since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Presidential Administration has launched myriad initiatives related to what looks like shaping a new state ideology: new repressive legislation, massive censorship in culture, a more rigid interpretation of tensions with the West and of Soviet history, new mandatory patriotism classes at schools and universities, new history textbooks, etc. Dr Laruelle will explore how the war is impacting the Kremlin’s ideological ecosystems and what are the patrons, institutional and funding mechanisms that shape this new state ideology.
This event will be hosted in person and virtually on Zoom. Non-NYU affiliates must RSVP for in-person campus access.
Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D., is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. At IERES she is also Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program and of the Russia Program, a Co-Director of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia), and the founder of the Central Asia Program. She has widely published on Russia’s ideologies and nationalism, on Russia’s foreign policy and soft power strategies, and has published 10 monographs, the last one being Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West (Cornell University Press).
