Professional Affiliation

Chief Research Fellow, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor, Higher School of Economics

Expert Bio

Olga Malinova is Professor of the School of Politics and Governance at HSE University, and chief research fellow of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences. The fields of her research interests include Russian political discourse and symbolic politics, with the focus on politics of memory and Russian identity construction. Her recent publications are “The embarrassing centenary: reinterpretation of the 1917 Revolution in the official historical narrative of post-Soviet Russia (1991–2017)” in Nationalities Papers, 2018, 46(2): 272-289, “Russian Identity and the ‘Pivot to the East’”, in Problems of Post-Communism (2019, 66(4): 227-239), and “Framing the Collective Memory of the 1990s as a Legitimation Tool for Putin’s Regime”, in Problems of Post-Communism (2021, DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2020.1752732).

Wilson Center Project

"The Images of 'The West' in the Discussions about Perspectives of Modernization in Russia: Westernism vs. Anti-Westernism and Competing Models of National Identity;"

Project Summary

Project Title: "The Images of 'The West' in the Discussions about Perspectives of Modernization in Russia: Westernism vs. Anti-Westernism and Competing Models of National Identity." 

Project Description: To study how Westernizers and their opponents presented the image of the West that fulfilled the role of an important Other for the both sides.

Previous Terms

Short Term Grant, Kennan Institute. Leading Research Fellow and Vice President of Russian Political Science Association, Department of Political Science, Institute of Scientific Information in Social Sciences, RAS. "Liberal Theories of Nations and Nationalism: History and Analysis." December 1999 - January 2000. Project Description: "Revision of the history of liberal theories of nationhood and national self-determination, and an analysis of the structure of liberal arguments within the discussion of rights of nation. This project simultaneously reviews recent debates on 'the national idea' in Russia."