Alexander Bikbov / Александр Бикбов

Osteuropa Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) invites to a lecture and discussion

Neomercantilist Turn of Neoliberal Government: Russia as a Global (South) Model?

by Alexander Bikbov

on 21 November 2024, 16:00-18:00

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Интервью «Пропаганда разрушает межклассовый мир» немецкоязычному изданию Die Wochenzeitung.

К чему на самом деле ведет военная пропаганда, предназначенная разным целевым аудиториям, какие виды сопротивления остаются незамеченными и чем методология Бурдье помогает в понимании механизма пропагандистского внушения.

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How do authoritarian tendencies in governance sit together with market logic? Why has mercantilism returned to politics and how does it work? Sociologist Alexander Bikbov analyzes the deadly alliance of the neoliberal and conservative forces in contemporary Russia.

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Technological complexity and dangerous ambiguity of the Russian political regime, evolving from the early 2000s, is explored in two English-speaking discussions in Berlin.
April 23, Discussion of the book Flexible Authoritarianism by Anna Schwenck.
April 25, New Russian Mercantilism: the Path of War, presentation by Alexander Bikbov.

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Everyday Life, Planned Consumption and Leisure in the Late Soviet Union

hosted by Alexander Bikbov, DAAD visiting professor at Lotman Institute RUB.

The seminar features leading historians of the late Soviet period to present in distance sessions their groundbreaking research and personal testimony of the phenomena of Soviet population management, production and consumption, urban life and collective sensibilities.

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Three courses that I am giving at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the fall 2023 / 2024. The courses are held in English, in face-to-face sessions.
— Protests in Eastern and Western Europe since 2010
— Everyday life, consumption culture and planned leisure in the late Soviet Union
— Draw me your society: visual research of social imagination

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Traduzione italiana di un’importante analisi riguardo il passaggio del regime russo dal neoliberismo al neomercantilismo. Figure chiave, indicatori economici e sociali, esempi illustrativi.

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