Vladimir Gel'Man

Vladimir Gel’man is professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research is focused on domestic politics and governance in post-Communist Russia in theoretical and comparative perspective of contemporary authoritarianism. Author and/or editor of 27 scholarly books, author of more than 150 articles, published in leading scholarly journals.

The project

Title: Political Capitalism and Authoritarian Resilience: Russia in Comparative Perspective

Hosting institution: Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)

Selective Bibliography

• V.Gel’man, Russia’s Gamble: Domestic Origins of Russia’s Attack on Ukraine (Polity, 2025), 220 p.
• V.Gel’man, The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia (University of Michigan Press, 2022), 232 p.
• V.Gel’man (ed.), Authoritarian Modernization in Russia: Ideas, Institutions and Policies (Routledge, 2016), 214 p.
• V.Gel’man, Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), 224 p.