Igor Torbakov
Researcher at Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 53 61
- E-mail:
- igor.torbakov@ires.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 3 tr
- Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Igor Torbakov is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. A trained historian, he specializes in Russian and Eurasian history and politics. His recent publications discuss the history of Russian nationalism, Russian-Ukrainian relations, the links between Russia’s domestic politics and foreign policy, Russia’s and Turkey’s geopolitical discourses, and the politics of history and memory wars in Eastern Europe.
Publications
Recent publications
- Memory Politics à la Russe (2022)
- Revisiting a ‘Sad Saga’ of Russo-Ukrainian Relations Twenty Years On (2022)
- Reflections on Empire and Imperial Nostalgia (2021)
- The Unfinished Business of the Ukrainian Revolution (2019)
- Turkey and Russia (2019)
All publications
Articles
- Revisiting a ‘Sad Saga’ of Russo-Ukrainian Relations Twenty Years On (2022)
- Reflections on Empire and Imperial Nostalgia (2021)
- Turkey and Russia (2019)
- Celebrating Red October (2018)
- Paradoxe Familienähnlichkeit (2018)
- Neo-Ottomanism versus Neo-Eurasianism? (2017)
- Russia-Europe Relations in Historical Perspective (2017)
- A Parting of Ways? (2015)
- The Russian Orthodox Church and Contestations over History in Contemporary Russia (2014)
- History, Memory and National Identity (2011)
- Russia and Turkish-Armenian Normalization (2010)
Books
Chapters
- Memory Politics à la Russe (2022)
- The Unfinished Business of the Ukrainian Revolution (2019)
- 'Middle Continent' or 'Island Russia' (2018)
- Defining the ‘True’ Nationalism (2017)
- Managing Imperial Peripheries (2016)
- Ukraine and Russia (2016)
- Becoming Eurasian (2015)
- The Past as Present (2015)
- ‘This Is a Strife of Slavs among Themselves’ (2014)
- Divisive Historical Memories (2014)
- The EU, Russia, and the ‘in-between Europe’ (2013)
- Between Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia (2013)
- Understanding Moscow’s Conduct (2013)
- The Southern Vector (2010)
