Autor/-in: P l Kolst

Pål Kolstø is Professor of Russian and post-Soviet Studies at the University of Oslo. Kolstø specializes in ethnic relations, nationalism and religion in Russia, other former Soviet republics and the Western Balkans. He is the author/editor of ten English-language books on these topics, including The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism, 2000-2015, 2016, and Russia Before and After Crimea: Nationalism and Identity, 2010-17, 2018, both published by Edinburgh University Press and co-edited with Helge Blakkisrud. His latest monographs are Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space, Edinburgh University Press 2022, and Heretical Orthodoxy: Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church, 2022.