Edwin Bacon (Birkbeck, London) will present his new book Inside Russian Politics, the first in a series called Inside Global Politics. The series aims to open up a topic to scholars and a wider public who wish to engage globally in an applied rather than theoretical manner. Inside Russian Politics offers a critical and absorbing account of the realities of contemporary Russian politics beyond the standard story of global power plays and resurgent authoritarian menace.

Professor Bacon will talk about his holistic approach and how this facilitates our understanding of power politics beyond the Kremlin and of Russian policy on the international stage. Revealing the Russia beyond Moscow and the central figures around Putin, Edwin Bacon focuses on Russia’s political present; not to ignore the past but to move beyond cliché and misleading historical analogy to reveal the contemporary — and future — concerns of Russia’s current generation of politicians.

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