The Loyal Middle Class of Putin’s Russia

Jan. 17, 2019, 4:00-5:00pm (registration requested)
Room 505, Fifth Floor, The Elliot School of International Affairs, 1957 E St. NW, Washington, DC

Join PONARS Eurasia for their New Voices on Russia speaker series, featuring Bryn Rosenfeld. Rosenfeld will discuss how public sector employment shapes key middle class constituencies’ support for the Putin regime and how evidence shows that demands for democracy and Russia's prospects for mobilized democratic transition hinge considerably on the middle classes' degree of state dependence.

Speaker:

Bryn Rosenfeld, assistant professor of political science, University of Southern California