• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford) , Professor Stephen Whitefield (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Mondays at 5pm

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Political Machines at Work: Electoral Subversion in the Russian Workplace
  Timothy Frye (Columbia University)

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Neo-Nomenklatura System in Russia: How it Looks, How it Feels
  Nikolai Petrov (Chatham House)

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Russian Organised Crime Under Putin – and After Him
  Mark Galeotti (UCL)

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - New Kremlinology: The Challenge of Understanding and Studying Elite Politics in Russia
  Alex Baturo (Dublin City University)

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
  Marc Berenson (KCL)

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Party People: Electoral Candidates, Party Change and Party System Evolution in Central and Eastern Europe
  Allan Sikk (UCL)

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reaching the Converted: Understanding the Methods of Informant Enrolment in East Germany
  Dr Barbara Piotrowska (University of Oxford )

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Social Capital and the Housing Renovations Programme in Russia
  Ekaterina Borisova (HSE University)