Amherst Center for Russian Culture Ilya Budraitskis, "The Composition of the Kremlin's Ideology"

Ilya Budraitskis is a political researcher previously based in Moscow. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley. His articles on Russian politics, culture and intellectual history were published in academic journals such as Radical Philosophy, New Left Review, Slavic Review and South Atlantic Quarterly, and in media outlets including Jacobin, London Review of Books, E-Flux, Le Monde Diplomatique and OpenDemocracy. Budraitskis’s essay collection Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia was published by Verso in 2022.

This talk is sponsored by the Lurcy Lecture Fund.