Stephen Hutchings on Russia - our evil twin

 

Professor Stephen Hutchings will be looking at how Russia's history of empire and militarism is intertwined with our own. Hutchings' view is that we are locked into a deeply troubled relationship that reflects the respective imperial and post-imperial rivalries, fears, blind spots, and prejudices of both sides. What does our shared past mean for how we deal with Russia in a future with, and without, Putin?

Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester and Fellow of the UK's Academy of Social Sciences. He has published various volumes on Russian literary, film and media studies. Hutchings has held eight large research grants with the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council since 2000, and was President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies from 2010 to 2013