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Prigozhin e Putin, signori della guerra

Il putsch e il successivo perdono presidenziale di Putin nei confronti di Evgenij Prigozhin potrebbero essere parte di un patto fra Signore della guerra pubblico e Signore della guerra privato, in una situazione in cui la Russia vive una fase neomercantilista simile a quella del capitalismo seicentesco.

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The warlord Prigozhin saves the king?

OpenDemocracy publication: Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner army, once wrote kids’ stories. What can they tell us about his ‘March on Moscow’? Why call Wagner’s mutiny a second coup and which one was the first? How the beginning of Prigozhin’s story makes part of a regression of the Russian state capitalism to its neo-mercantilist mode and what its final chapter has to do with a claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of force?

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«Матрица интеллектуальной революции: рынок переводов в российских социальных и гуманитарных науках с 1990», статья в журнале Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, N°1-2 (246-247), 2023.

История последних 30 лет интеллектуального книгоиздания в России через призму переводов. Ключевые акторы, стратегии, практики.

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Unequal in war, still resisting

“Inequalities and resistance in Putin’s Russia” (interview with Alexander Bikbov by Asia Leofreddi), Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa, 15/11/2022.

Dual sided population management in Russia and how the war boosts social inequalities, the neo-mercantilist current regime and how it fits the neo-liberal rationality, three major forms of anti-war resistance in Russia.

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A discussion on time management in the USSR at the festival of social sciences «Allez savoir 2022» (Marseille).

Participants: Alexander Bikbov, Alexandra Koulaeva, Isabelle Thireau.

Video of the discussion in French, with switchable subtitles in English and other languages.

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Un’analisi delle dinamiche della società russa dal febbraio 2022: la guerra come la macchina delle disuguaglianze, le forme di consenso e di resistenza che genera (MicroMega, 14/10/22).

Российское общество в значительной степени депрессировано неравенствами и принуждением, но очаги сопротивления не угасают. Анализ динамики последних месяцев: война как машина неравенств, формы консенсуса и формы сопротивления, которые она генерирует.

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Alexander Bikbov: Resistance and depression in Russia during the wartime (A sociological research in unsecure conditions), DAMS, Università di Bologna

Who remains in Russia, how non-violent resistance is organized to the militarisation of public life, and how do social groups which do not adhere to conformist or activist positions adapt themselves to the dual condition of perpetrator and victim?

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