This project aims at studying different aspects of Russian political economy such as the dynamics and specific features of capitalism in Russia, the character and role of the Russian state, and the transformation of ideological paradigms underwriting the Russian state's policymaking (e.g., neoliberalism, developmentalism).
Academic Publications
- From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo)liberal Economic Expertise in Russia (Problems of Post-Communism, 2024)
- When the Whole Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts: Russian Developmentalism since the Mid-2000s (Russian Politics, 2023)
- Inequality and Social Policy in Russia (Russian Politics Today, 2024)
- Sanctions against Russia: No Blitzkrieg, but a Devastating Effect Nonetheless (Russian Analytical Digest, 2022)
- Loft offices and factory towns: Social sources of political polarization in Russia (Socialialist Register, 2021)
- Benefits or services? Politics of welfare retrenchment in Russia, 2014–2017 (East European Politics, 2020)
- Welfare restructuring in Russia since 2012: National trends and evidence from the regions (Europe-Asia Studies, 2020)
- Big business in Putin's Russia: Structural and instrumental power (Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 2019)
- State, capital, and the transformation of the neoliberal policy paradigm In Putin's Russia (International Review Of Modern Sociology, 2019)
- Stability's end: The political economy of Russia's intersecting crises since 2009. Chapter in Crises in the Post‐Soviet Space: From the Dissolution of the Soviet Union to the Conflict in Ukraine (Routledge, 2018)
Book reviews
Media
- The Split of the Elites and the Question of Expectations (Riddle, 2023)
- Wagnerization: How Putin Degraded the Russian State (LeftEast, 2023)
- The war in Ukraine and Russian capital: From military-economic to full military imperialism (Alameda, 2022)
- The Ukrainian invasion: Implications for Putin's power (Al Jazeera, 2022)