Associate Professor Evgeny Pavlov explores why Putin is so obsessed with history and what history has to teach Putin?

Evgeny Pavlov is Associate Professor of Russian and History at UC and Vice President of the Australia and New Zealand Slavists’ Association. His recent work includes an edited volume on the political narratives in Russia’s relations with Post-Soviet Europe 30 years after the breakup of the USSR.

'Putin and History' is sponsored by the Canterbury Historical Association