In his new book, The Revolutionary City which he will talk about at this event, Mark R. Beissinger provides a new understanding of how revolutions happen and what they might look like in the future.
He will be joined by Olga Onuch who will discuss the book.
Meet our speakers and chair
Mark R Beissinger is Henry W. Putnam Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His main fields of interest are social movements, revolutions, nationalism, state-building, and imperialism, with special reference to the former Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states. Mark wrote a blog for this event .
Olga Onuch () is the first-ever holder of a full professorship in Ukrainian politics in the English-speaking world and making UoM the first English language university to host such a Professorship. A scholar of comparative politics of eastern Europe and Latin America Onuch’s work looks at the motivations driving citizens to vote, protest, and/or migrate and factors related to their media consumption, as well as identity formation and policy preferences.democratizing contexts.
Tomila Lankina () is Professor of International Relations at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. She has worked on democracy and authoritarianism, mass protests and historical drivers of human capital and political regime change in Russia and other countries; she has also analysed the propaganda and disinformation campaigns in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and aggression in Ukraine. Her latest research is on social structure and inequality.
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