Overview

Hi everyone! We are excited to announce our fundraising initiative Gift a Dream, Gift a Book which will continue throughout this summer. Books will be donated to our society and then introduced to our members via video access. All proceeds from each book purchased will be allocated to UNICEF UK. Our first book is written by professor Gulnaz Sharafutdinova. She has joined King's Russia Institute in 2013. She has recently published The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity (Oxford University Press, 2020) which explores issues of authoritarian legitimation in Russia relying on social identity theory. She currently works on a book The Afterlife of the Soviet Man: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus and conducts research on digital technologies of governance and vaccine hesitancy in the context of authoritarian regimes.