"Ordinary People" and Fascism: A Conjunctural Perspective on (Pre)War Russia

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  • Olga Reznikova University of Zurich

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https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v13i3.5305

Author Biography

Olga Reznikova, University of Zurich

Olga Reznikova is a cultural anthropologist. She first studied History of Judaism and Middle Eastern Culture at the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies and then at LMU Munich, where she wrote her MA thesis on anti-Chechen racism. After graduating in European Ethnology in 2012, she worked as a research assistant at LMU and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, including on the DFG project “Urban Ethics”. In 2021, she completed her PhD in Göttingen on the topic of workers’ protests in Russia, for which she ethnographically accompanied a truckers’ strike near Moscow for several years. As of 2021 she has been working as a research assistant at the University of Zurich. Her current research in New York City is on nostalgia and ethical invocations in urban living. She publishes journalistic and academic articles on feminism, racism, protest culture and anti-Semitism in Russian, German and English. [Email: olga.reznikova@uzh.ch]

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2022-09-30

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