Cécile Vaissié

Political scientist, historian, slavist, Professor at the University of Rennes II, director of the Russian department of Rennes II, researcher at CERCLE (Nancy 2). She works mainly on power-society-culture relations in 20^th and 21^st century Russia, and on questions of influence from 1920 to today. Her latest books: Le Clan Mikhalkov. Culture et pouvoirs en Russie (1917-2017), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019; Les Réseaux du Kremlin en France, Paris, Les Petits Matins, 2016; La Fabrique de l’homme nouveau après Staline. Les arts et la culture dans le projet soviétique, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016.

5 publications on Desk Russie English

May 22, 2023	They Made Putinism: Gleb Pavlovsky (1951-2023), the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in the Green Jacket
April 30, 2023	Vladislav Surkov, the “Aesthete” of the Shadows
November 16, 2021	Journalist Geneviève Tabouis: Soviet Funding and Influence
September 06, 2021	The Russian Diaspora, a “Battlefield”?
August 20, 2021	Sergei Kovalev: Conscience of Russia and Conscience of the West