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Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoUkraine: the war that changed the worldContributor(s): Professor Tomila Lankina, Dr Eleanor Knott, Professor Robert Falkner, Professor Chris Alden | Few predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even fewer thought it would still be going on 18 months later. There is though almost complete agreement that what began as a regional conflict has changed the world forever.2023-10-021h 14Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoRussia: does It believe in anything? | LSE FestivalContributor(s): Professor Vladislav Zubok, Professor Tomila Lankina, Adam Curtis, Grigor Atanesian | Adam Curtis’s BAFTA-nominated BBC series, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, documents what it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy, based on preserved and digitised footage from BBC archives and forgotten or never shown scenes from Soviet life and life in post-Soviet states.
Adam Curtis and Traumazone producer Grigor Atanesian, in conversation with Professor Vladislav Zubok and Professor Tomila Lankina, will reflect on what went wrong thirty-something years ago.2023-06-171h 07
The Briefing RoomUkraine: Is it all about to change?Recent movements by Ukraine and Russia's military forces suggest that the long awaited spring offensive could start any day. David Aaronovitch and guests discuss the implications. Guests: Michael Clarke, Professor of Defence studies and Specialist Advisor to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
Vitaly Shevchenko, Russia editor at BBC Monitoring
Tomila Lankina, Professor of politics and international relations at LSE
Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of the US and the Americas programme at Chatham HouseProduced by: Kirsteen Knight, Claire Bowes and Ben Carter
Edited by: Penny Murphy
Sound engineer: James Beard
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Demos Helsinki PodcastWhat’s the future of capitalism? Podcast: LSE IQ podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: What’s the future of capitalism?Pub date: 2022-09-06Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:On defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics, and defying the Bolsheviks.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationContributor(s): Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg, Tomila Lankina | Joanna Bale talks to Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg and Tomila Lankina about defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics and defying the Bolsheviks.The podcast and artwork embedded on this...2022-09-1431 min
LSE IQ | Intelligent questions with social science answersWhat’s the future of capitalism?Capitalism and free markets have lifted billions out of poverty across the globe. But it is also blamed for widening the gap between rich and poor - with increasing numbers of people feeling left behind.
Joanna Bale talks to Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg and Tomila Lankina about defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics and defying the Bolsheviks.
Research links:
Free by Lea Ypi: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320869/free-by-ypi-lea/9780141995106
The economic consequences of major tax cuts for the rich by David Hope and Julian Limberg: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107919
The Estate Origins of Democracy in...2022-09-0631 minLSE PodcastsWhat’s the future of capitalism?Capitalism and free markets have lifted billions out of poverty across the globe. But it is also blamed for widening the gap between rich and poor - with increasing numbers of people feeling left behind.
Joanna Bale talks to Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg and Tomila Lankina about defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics and defying the Bolsheviks.
Research links:
Free by Lea Ypi: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320869/free-by-ypi-lea/9780141995106
The economic consequences of major tax cuts for the rich by David Hope and Julian Limberg: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107919
The Estate Origins of Democracy in...2022-09-0631 min
LSE IQWhat’s the future of capitalism?Contributor(s): Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg, Tomila Lankina | Joanna Bale talks to Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg and Tomila Lankina about defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics and defying the Bolsheviks.2022-09-0631 minLSE IQ podcastWhat’s the future of capitalism?Contributor(s): Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg, Tomila Lankina | Joanna Bale talks to Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg and Tomila Lankina about defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics and defying the Bolsheviks.2022-09-0631 min
The QoG PodcastTomila Lankina: The Estate Origins of Democracy in RussiaGuesting this episode is Tomila Lankina, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and one of the greatest experts on current Russia, thanks to her knowledge of Russian History. Tomila has worked on democracy and authoritarianism. Mass protests and historical drivers of human capital and political regime change in Russia and other countries; she has also analyzed the propaganda and disinformation campaigns in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea and aggression in Ukraine.Victor and Tomlia discuss Tomlia's book: The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: F...2022-06-2249 min
The San Francisco ExperienceOrigins of Russia's shifting political regime. In conversation with Professor Tomila Lankina of the London School of Economics.Russia's post Communist democratic reforms in the 1990's gave the country a representative form of government with a relatively free press. But under Vladimir Putin's 22 year rule, the country has slipped back into an autocratic style of governance. Professor Pankina recounts how the Communist regime absorbed many of the governing structures of the Tsarist era which continue to influence Russia's civil society even to this day. An additional blogpost on this podcast will follow.2022-03-2835 min
LSE Research channel | VideoAirbrushed out of history: the Soviet middle class and lessons for inequalityContributor(s): Professor Tomila Lankina | How did the Imperial Russian bourgeoisie endure such a seismic revolution? And what can this stubborn reproduction of social structures tell us about addressing inequality today?
In her new book, Professor Tomila Lankina challenges materialist notions of inequality, instead highlighting the significance of social, cultural, and educational capital in the perpetuation of social hierarchies – even under the most brutal communist dictatorship bent on obliterating the social remnants of the past.
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🔴 Find out more about Professor Tomila Lankina’s book: The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia, Cambridge University Press, Dec...2022-01-1805 minLSE Research channel | VideoAirbrushed out of history: the Soviet middle class and lessons for inequalityContributor(s): Professor Tomila Lankina | How did the Imperial Russian bourgeoisie endure such a seismic revolution? And what can this stubborn reproduction of social structures tell us about addressing inequality today?
In her new book, Professor Tomila Lankina challenges materialist notions of inequality, instead highlighting the significance of social, cultural, and educational capital in the perpetuation of social hierarchies – even under the most brutal communist dictatorship bent on obliterating the social remnants of the past.
🔴 Read more about this research in #LSEResearchForTheWorld:
🔴 Find out more about Professor Tomila Lankina’s book: The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia, Cambridge University Press, Dec...2022-01-1805 min
LSE PodcastsLSE Festival 2019 | Protesting Inequalities [Audio]Speaker(s): Bird la Bird, Dr Aviah Sarah Day, Dr Armine Ishkanian, Professor Tomila Lankina, Dr Olga Onuch | This event examines the changing dynamics of protests and protest movements, focusing on how activists in the UK and globally mobilize and fight against inequalities. Bird la Bird is a performance artist who straddles historiography, comedy, queer and politics. She has been described as a Queer Pearly Queen and a Haute Couture Fishwife. Bird la Bird has recently developed a series of performances interrogating the histories of Britain’s key cultural institutions, queering the chronicles and unpicking the layers of colonialism, class op...2019-03-0255 min
PONARS Eurasia PodcastPre-Revolutionary Estates, Modernization, and Political Contestation in Soviet and Post-Soviet RussiaTomila Lankina (London School of Economics) and Alexander Libman (University of Munich) discuss their research project on Pre-Revolutionary Estates, Modernization and Political Contestation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia.2018-04-0312 min
???? ? ?????? ?LSE IQ Episode 12 | Why is democracy declining? [Audio]Contributor(s): Dr Jonathan Hopkin, Dr Brian Klass, Professor Tomila Lankina | Welcome to LSE IQ, a monthly podcast from the London School of Economics and Political Science. This is the podcast where we ask some of the leading social scientists - and other experts - to answer intelligent questions about economics, politics or society. Earlier this year, the independent watchdog organisation Freedom House published a report cautioning that, in 2017, democracy had faced its most serious crisis in decades. In this episode, Jess Winterstein asks what might lie behind this decline in global freedom and what the future might hold for...2018-03-0640 min
LSE IQ | Intelligent questions with social science answersWhy is democracy declining?To subscribe on Apple podcasts please visit http://apple.co/2r40QPA or on Andriod http://subscribeonandroid.com/www.lse.ac.uk/assets/richmedia/webFeeds/lseiqpodcast_iTunesStore.xml or search for 'LSE IQ' in your favourite podcast app or visit http://lse.ac.uk/iq
Welcome to LSE IQ, a monthly podcast from the London School of Economics and Political Science. This is the podcast where we ask some of the leading social scientists - and other experts - to answer intelligent questions about economics, politics or society.
Earlier this year, the independent watchdog organisation Freedom House published a report...2018-03-0640 minLSE IQ podcastLSE IQ Episode 12 | Why is democracy declining?Contributor(s): Dr Jonathan Hopkin, Dr Brian Klass, Professor Tomila Lankina | Welcome to LSE IQ, a monthly podcast from the London School of Economics and Political Science. This is the podcast where we ask some of the leading social scientists - and other experts - to answer intelligent questions about economics, politics or society. Earlier this year, the independent watchdog organisation Freedom House published a report cautioning that, in 2017, democracy had faced its most serious crisis in decades. In this episode, Jess Winterstein asks what might lie behind this decline in global freedom and what the future might hold for...2018-03-0640 minLSE IQLSE IQ Episode 12 | Why is democracy declining?Contributor(s): Dr Jonathan Hopkin, Dr Brian Klass, Professor Tomila Lankina | Welcome to LSE IQ, a monthly podcast from the London School of Economics and Political Science. This is the podcast where we ask some of the leading social scientists - and other experts - to answer intelligent questions about economics, politics or society. Earlier this year, the independent watchdog organisation Freedom House published a report cautioning that, in 2017, democracy had faced its most serious crisis in decades. In this episode, Jess Winterstein asks what might lie behind this decline in global freedom and what the future might hold for...2018-03-0640 minAutumn 2014 | Public lectures and events | VideoThe EU, Russia and Ukraine: Lessons LearnedContributor(s): Professor Tomila Lankina, Professor Karen E Smith, Professor Vladislav Zubok, Dr Gwendolyn Sasse | LSE experts will be debating what the EU got right and what it got wrong in the political crisis that followed Ukraine’s refusal to sign the Association Agreement in November 2013.2014-11-0652 min2014 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe EU, Russia and Ukraine: Lessons LearnedContributor(s): Professor Tomila Lankina, Professor Karen E Smith, Professor Vladislav Zubok, Dr Gwendolyn Sasse | LSE experts will be debating what the EU got right and what it got wrong in the political crisis that followed Ukraine’s refusal to sign the Association Agreement in November 2013.2014-11-0652 min2014 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoThe EU, Russia and Ukraine: Lessons LearnedContributor(s): Professor Tomila Lankina, Professor Karen E Smith, Professor Vladislav Zubok, Dr Gwendolyn Sasse | LSE experts will be debating what the EU got right and what it got wrong in the political crisis that followed Ukraine’s refusal to sign the Association Agreement in November 2013.2014-11-0652 minAutumn 2014 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe EU, Russia and Ukraine: Lessons LearnedContributor(s): Dr Tomila Lankina, Professor Karen E Smith, Professor Vladislav Zubok, Dr Gwendolyn Sasse | LSE experts will be debating what the EU got right and what it got wrong in the political crisis that followed Ukraine’s refusal to sign the Association Agreement in November 2013.2014-11-0652 min
LSE IDEAS | VideoMass Protests and Electoral Fraud in Russia [Video]Contributor(s): Tomila Lankina, Rodion Skovoroda | Tomila Lankina, Associate Professor of International Relations, LSE and Rodion Skovoroda, Assistant Professor Nottingham University, discuss their application of the “last digit” fraud detection statistical technique to analyse the interaction between electoral fraud and mass protests in Russia, and why electoral authoritarian regimes should be wary of mass protests when they try to reproduce themselves through electoral fraud.2014-07-1405 min
LSE Department of International Relations | VideoIR482 Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies [Video]Contributor(s): Tomila Lankina | The course covers the various factors shaping Soviet, post-communist Russian and Eurasian foreign and security policy. It explores both the traditional foreign policy and security issues, such as the arms race and Détente, the role of the military, economic power projection, etc., as well as new soft power and security factors shaping policy, such as transnational civil society, sub-national regionalization, transnational ethnic and cultural networks, migration, the role of ideas, norms and norm entrepreneurs, etc. Key topics covered are Cold War, East-West relations and Détente; relations with Eastern Europe; relations with the Third World; Go...2013-07-2502 minDepartment of International RelationsIR482 Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies [Video]Contributor(s): Tomila Lankina | The course covers the various factors shaping Soviet, post-communist Russian and Eurasian foreign and security policy. It explores both the traditional foreign policy and security issues, such as the arms race and Détente, the role of the military, economic power projection, etc., as well as new soft power and security factors shaping policy, such as transnational civil society, sub-national regionalization, transnational ethnic and cultural networks, migration, the role of ideas, norms and norm entrepreneurs, etc. Key topics covered are Cold War, East-West relations and Détente; relations with Eastern Europe; relations with the Third World; Go...2013-07-2502 min