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Alexander Etkind


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in Leningrad, USSR
January 01, 1955

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Alexander Etkind (Russian: Александр Эткинд) was born in Leningrad and moved to Cambridge, UK in 2005. He is now is a Professor in Russian Literature and Cultural History and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Alexander has PhD in Psychology from Bekhterev Institute, Leningrad, and another in Slavonic Literatures from the University of Helsinki.

Before coming to the UK, he taught at the European University at St. Petersburg, with which he continues to collaborate. He was a visiting professor at New York University and Georgetown University, and a resident fellow at Harvard, Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C., Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

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Internal Colonization: Russ...

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Russia Against Modernity

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Warped Mourning: Stories of...

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Nature's Evil: A Cultural H...

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Мир мог быть другим. Уильям...

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Eros of the Impossible: The...

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Хлыст. Секты, литература и ...

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Remembering Katyn

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La Russia contro la modernità

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“Postwar periods are intellectually productive: they create ideas that feed the next generations, though they do not pre­vent these new generations from starting another war.”
Alexander Etkind, Russia Against Modernity

“we will never run out of oil because we will run out of air first.”
Alexander Etkind, Russia Against Modernity

“In 2020, researchers found out that around two-thirds of the Russian bureaucracy had parents who had also worked in the bureaucracy. Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet system, the descendants of the Soviet officials made up about 60 percent of Russia's ruling class.”
Alexander Etkind, Russia Against Modernity



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