Mikhail Suslov
Associate Professor
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Karen Blixens Plads 8
2300 København S
My research focuses on the evolution of illiberal ideologies in the non-Western contexts. I have examined Russian right-wing, geopolitical and Church-related concepts, visions and utopias. As a historian, I am mostly interested in intellectual development of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet political philosophy, but my current research aims mostly to understand the essence, role and intellectual roots of Putinism as a new competitor to liberal democracy – an ideology with a considerable international appeal and potential to resonate with many other ideologies, such as populism, right-wing communitarianism, traditionalist anti-globalism, religious fundamentalism and so on. My most important recent publications include: co-edited volumes Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Problems, Paradoxes and Dangers (Leiden: Brill, 2019), The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia: Language, Fiction and Fantasy in Russia (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), Pan-Slavism and Slavophilia in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan), and monographs Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia (Ibidem, 2020) and Putinism – Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology (Routledge, 2024).
Keywords
Ideology, utopia, geopolitics, political imagination, illiberalism, populism, conservatism, nationalism, communitarianism, Russian Orthodox Church, Putinism, Russian world, Pan-Slavism, Eurasianism, civilization, Russia, post-Soviet space
Teaching
- Contemporary Russian politics and society
- Russian and East European history
- Main topics in Russian and East European studies
- Geopolitical culture in Russia
- Digital politics in Russia
- Identity politics in Eastern Europe
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The Genealogy of the Idea of Monarchy in the Post-Soviet Political Discourse of the Russian Orthodox Church
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Regimeideologi og politisk historiebrug i Rusland: Udstillingen »Rusland – Min Historie«
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The Russian Orthodox Church and the Pandemic: Problems, Challenges, Responses
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