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Jussi Lassila is a Senior Research Fellow in the Russia, EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood and Eurasia research programme at Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He has published widely on issues related to Russian domestic politics, in particular identity politics, nationalism, populism and political communication. He has commented extensively on topics related to Russian politics and society, especially in the Finnish media. Latest academic publications include “Casting off Soviet chains? Conditions for the ideological renewal of communist successor parties in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova since the 2010s” (with Ryhor Nizhnikau), Journal of Eurasian Studies 2022 (open-access), Attitudes to Putin-Era Patriotism Amongst Russia’s ‘In Between’ Generation (with Anna Sanina), Europe-Asia Studies 2022 (open-access) and “Whose turn, for whom? Conservative values and Putinʼs social contract in Conservatism and Memory Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe”, Routledge 2021.

Honorary title

Adjunct Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Language and Communication Studies

Expertise

Russian domestic politics, in particular identity politics, nationalism, political movements, populism, political rhetoric and communication

Degrees

PhD, University of Jyväskylä (2011).

Language skills

Finnish, English, Russian, Estonian, Swedish (reading and listening)

Projects

The Politics of Climate Change


Latest FIIA Publications

Expertise

Russian domestic politics, in particular identity politics, nationalism, political movements, populism, political rhetoric and communication

Honorary title

Adjunct Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Language and Communication Studies

Degrees

PhD, University of Jyväskylä (2011).

Language skills

Finnish, English, Russian, Estonian, Swedish (reading and listening)

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Lassila, Jussi (2023). Kokin kuolema. Ulkopolitiikka, 60 (3):50-55.

Lassila, Jussi (2022). Venäjän demokratiakehitys. In Koskelo, Pauliine; Lassila, Jussi; Lundstedt, Tero; Miklóssy, Katalin ed(s): Diktaattorin käsikirja. Helsinki: Ajatuspaja Libera. 27-43.

Kangaspuro, Markku & Lassila, Jussi (2021). Conservative turn and populist opposition. In Kivinen, Markku & Humphreys, Brendan ed(s): Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 221-228.

Lassila, Jussi (2021). Populism from below and above. In Kivinen, Markku & Humphreys, Brendan ed(s): Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 84-87.

Nazarenko, Salla; Aitamurto, Kaarina; Heusala, Anna-Liisa; Korhonen, Vesa; Koski, Sanni; Laine, Veera; Lassila, Jussi & Mitikka, Eemil (2019). Venäjän sisäinen kehitys. In ed(s): Voiman Venäjä. Helsinki: Puolustusministeriö. 101-147.

Lassila, Jussi (2018). Pakotteiden pakkorako. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 6.1.

Fedor, Julie; Zhurzhenko, Tatiana; Lassila, Jussi & Kangaspuro, Markku ed(s) (2017). War and memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Palgrave Macmillan.

Lassila, Jussi (2017). Totuuden jälkeiseen totuuteen. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 5.1.

Lassila, Jussi (2016). Ot neuspeshna mobilizatsiia na mladezhta km paternalistichno vizualizirane na Putin: neravniiat pt mladezhkoto dvizhenie "Nashi". Critique & Humanism, 45 (1):9-28.

Lassila, Jussi (2016). Ymmärrän, en hyväksy. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 1.9.

Lassila, Jussi (2016). Jussi Lassila. Faces of Aleksanteri – Celebrating the 20 years of the Aleksanteri Institute, 22.8.

Lassila, Jussi (2016). Tiedon turhaannuttamat. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 15.4.

Lassila, Jussi (2015). Neuvostoliitosta nationalismien kirjoon. In Kivinen, Markku; Vähäkylä, Leena ed(s): Venäjän palatseissa ja kaduilla. Helsinki: Gaudeamus. 187-196.

Lassila, Jussi (2015). Euraasiat vastakkain. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 5.12.

Lassila, Jussi (2015). Tunnustamattomat sotilaat. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 30.6.

Lassila, Jussi (2015). Riskiyhteiskunnan turvaovi. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 2.4.

Lassila, Jussi (2014). Yllätys vai pettymys? Salon Seudun Sanomat, 19.12.

Lassila, Jussi (2014). Venäjän "voitokkaat informaatio-operaatiot". Salon Seudun Sanomat, 21.8.

Lassila, Jussi (2014). Tarina eräästä avioliitosta. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 6.4.

Lassila, Jussi (2014). Kammoa ja paniikkia Impivaaran rannoilla. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 31.1.

Lassila, Jussi (2013). Robin Hood Venäjän netissä. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 24.10.

Lassila, Jussi (2013). Vapaata Venäjää 2013. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 26.6.

Lassila, Jussi (2013). Suuren voiton sitkeä varjo. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 12.2.

Lassila, Jussi (2012). The quest for an ideal youth in Putin's Russia II: The search for distinctive conformism in the political communication of Nashi, 2005-2009. Stutgart: Ibidem-Verlag.

Lassila, Jussi (2012). Making sense of Nashi's political style: The Bronze Soldier and the counter-orange community. In Laruelle, Marlène ed(s): Russian nationalism, foreign policy and identity debates in Putin's Russia: New ideological patterns after the Orange Revolution. Stutgart: ibidem Press. 105-138.

Lassila, Jussi (2012). On the limits of triumph and trauma: The generational challenge in the commemoration of the Great Patriotic War in Putin's Russia. East European Memory Studies (11):1-2.

Lassila, Jussi (2012). Totuuden huostaan. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 5.10.

Lassila, Jussi (2012). Uhkakuvakohinasta identiteettikriisiin. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 12.6.

Lassila, Jussi (2012). Hiipuvan karisman epäkarismaattinen nuoriso. Uusi Suomi, 8.3.

Lassila, Jussi (2011). Protestin huuma. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 27.12.

Lassila, Jussi (2010). Kun kätketty agenda onkin paljas: Putin-nuorten poliittinen viestintä ja kriittisen diskurssianalyysin haasteet. In Viljanen, Elina; Aitamurto, Kaarina; Lassila, Jussi; Salmi, Anna-Maria ed(s): Suuri ja mahtava metodologia: Lähestymistapoja Venäjän ja Itä-Euroopan tutkimukseen. Helsinki: Edita. 179-205.

Lassila, Jussi; Viljanen, Elina; Aitamurto, Kaarina & Salmi, Anna-Maria ed(s) (2010). Suuri ja mahtava metodologia?: Lähestymistapoja Venäjän ja Itä-Euroopan tutkimukseen. Helsinki: Edita.

Lassila, Jussi (2010). Voi vuotoja. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 15.12.

Lassila, Jussi (2010). Politiikka ei kiinnosta Venäjän nuorisoa. Kaleva, 28.4.

Lassila, Jussi (2010). Lukitut muistot. Salon Seudun Sanomat, 18.3.

Lassila, Jussi (2009). Mezhdu kollektivnym vospitaniem i individual'noy stimulyaciey. O diskursakh proprezidentskogo molodezhnogo dvizheniya “Nashi”. In Příhoda, Marek; Vaňkova, Hana ed(s): Unknown host publication. 39-47.

Lassila, Jussi (2009). Druzhba narodov i "black and white parties": Bor'ba s fashizmom v ritorike Demokraticheskogo Antifashistskogo Molodezhnogo Dvizheniya "NASHI". In Omel'chenko, E.; Lukyanova, E. ed(s): Neokonchatel'nyi analiz...Ksenofobnye nastroeniya v molodezhnoy srede. 123-136.

Lassila, Jussi (2007). Commissars on the market: discursive commodities of the youth movement NASHI. In Vanhala-Aniszewski, Marjatta; Siilin, Lea ed(s): Voices and values of young people: Representations in Russian media. Helsinki: Aleksanteri Institute. 99-133.

Lassila, Jussi (2006). Venäjä, kansalaisyhteiskunta ja kielipelit. Tieto & trendit (4):56-57.

Lassila, Jussi (2006). Familyarizatsiya kak priznak sovremennogo mediateksta. In Vanhala-Aniszewski, Marjatta; Smetanina, Svetlana Ivanova ed(s): Mediatekst v sotsiokul'turnom prostranstve: teoriâ i praktikum. 139-168.

Lassila, Jussi (2005). Tekstovye skrepy kak ukazateli ideologicheskogo znacheniya. In Baschmakoff, Natalia; Vanhala-Aniszewski, Marjatta ed(s): Re-reading Soviet and post-Soviet texts. 156-174.