Dmitry Shlapentokh

Dmitry Shlapentokh was educated both in the USSR and the USA (Ph.D, University of Chicago). He is currently an Associate Professor of Russian and World History at Indiana University South Bend. His interests are in Soviet and post-Soviet history and European history. He has authored, co-authored and edited several monographs: Ideological Seduction and Intellectuals in Putin's Russia (2021) ; The French Revolution and the Anti-Democratic Tradition: A Case of False Consciousness (2018) ; The...See more

Dmitry Shlapentokh was educated both in the USSR and the USA (Ph.D, University of Chicago). He is currently an Associate Professor of Russian and World History at Indiana University South Bend. His interests are in Soviet and post-Soviet history and European history. He has authored, co-authored and edited several monographs: Ideological Seduction and Intellectuals in Putin's Russia (2021) ; The French Revolution and the Anti-Democratic Tradition: A Case of False Consciousness (2018) ; The Mongol Conquest in the Novels of Vasily Yan: An Intellectual Biography (2017); Proto-Totalitarian State: Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes (2017); The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life ; Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe: Memory of the Future (2015); The Role of Small States in the Post-Cold War Era: The Case of Belarus (2012); Russian Elite Image of Iran: From the Late Soviet Era to the Present (2009); Russia Between East and West: Scholarly Debates on Eurasianism (editor, 2007). See less