SERGEI LEBEDEV - Russia: Empire Resurrected?

SERGEI LEBEDEV IN CONVERSATION WITH DESSY GAVRILOVA
SAMSTAG, 30.09. 2023 / 15h30,
AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE WIEN, AULA

The malicious Russian war against Ukraine raises questions about Russia’s historical and political origins. The history of Russian oppression of Ukrainian nationhood spans centuries. However, the Russian opposition prefers to describe Russia as a failed democracy, a country forcibly taken by authoritarian rule, rather than an ex-empire trying to rebuild itself.
In conversation with Vienna Humanities Festival co-founder DESSY GAVRILOVA, Russian writer and journalist SERGEI LEBEDEV will reveal how Russia’s colonial and imperial past, crucially overlooked by Russian liberals and the West, has determined Russia’s aggressive stance towards its neighbors ever since the beginning of the First Chechen war.
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Part of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2023.
The Vienna Humanities Festival is a project by Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen and Time to Talk.
In cooperation with: Falter, Open Society Foundations, Stadt Wien, Erste Stiftung, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien and Volkstheater.

Learn more about the Vienna Humanities Festival here: https://www.humanitiesfestival.at