Calamities: A Call for a New Conceptual Toolkit

Posted on by Tomila Lankina

It’s been a week and I’m exhausted. I’ve been writing, posting, blogging, and petitioning, about what we as academics and my institution, LSE, could do to help Ukraine. The agony of the powerlessness of the first few days has now subsided for there are contours of concreteness now appearing, out of the blitz of emails, … Continue reading Calamities: A Call for a New Conceptual Toolkit

The Legacy of Russia’s Bourgeoisie through the Lens of History and Political Science

Posted on by Tomila Lankina

In recent years there has been a welcome resurgence of research into the historical legacies shaping the economic and political trajectories of post-communist states. Not only do we have the conceptual vocabulary to grapple with the question of “what is a historical legacy?” but also emerging scholarship into the complex interactions among legacies associated with … Continue reading The Legacy of Russia’s Bourgeoisie through the Lens of History and Political Science