Russia: The End of the Post-Soviet Period. What Next?

IAS/SIR Speaker Series: Kirill Kobrin, Managing Editor of Neprikosnovennyi Zapas

Kirill Kobrin (1964) is a historian, writer, literary and art critic, co-editor of Moscow magazine of sociology, history and politics Neprikosnovenniy Zapas [Emergency Rations]. Kobrin is an author of 21 books and a regular contributor to prominent Russian, British and Latvian magazines. Several of his books and a lot of essays and academic articles have been translated into European and Asian languages. Kobrin’s latest book «Разговор в комнатах. Карамзин, Чаадаев, Герцен и начало современной России» [Conversation in the rooms. Karamzin, Chaadaev, Herzen and the beginning of modern Russia] was recently published in New Literary Observer (Moscow). Kirill Kobrin lives in London, Riga and Chengdu (where he works as a visiting professor at Sichuan University).

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History.