Markku Kangaspuro is a professor and director of research at the Aleksanteri Institute, the Research Centre of Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Helsinki. His expertise covers political history, especially the former Soviet Union; the political development of Russia; identities and nationalism; and modernization and development problems. His recent publications include Perestroika: Processes and Consequences (edited with Jouko Nikula and Ivor Stodolsky) (Finnish Literature Society, 2010); Modernisation in Russia since 1900 (edited with Jeremy Smith) (Finnish Literature Society, 2006); and “The Victory Day in History Politics” in Between Utopia and Apocalypse: Essays on Social Theory and Russia (Kikimora Publications, 2011). Kangaspuro's current research project, Memory at War, with five European universities, focuses on the memory politics of the Second World War and political use of history. He is also the editor-in-chief of Idäntutkimus—The Finnish Review of East European Studies.
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