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.
Titel
Docent, Jyväskylä universitet, institutionen för språk- och kommunikationsvetenskap (2016)
Expertis
Rysslands inrikespolitik, speciellt identitetspolitik, nationalism, politiska rörelser, populism, politisk retorik och kommunikation
Examen
FD, Jyväskylä universitet (2011)
Språkkunskaper
finska, engelska, ryska, estniska, svenska (passiva kunskaper)
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Lassila, Jussi (2021).
An unattainable ideal: Youth and patriotism in Russia.
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Katri Pynnöniemi
(red.):
Nexus of Patriotism and Militarism in Russia. A Quest for Internal Cohesion.
Helsinki:
Helsinki University Press.
119-149.
Kangaspuro, Markku & Lassila, Jussi (2021).
Conservative turn and populist opposition.
I
Kivinen, Markku & Humphreys, Brendan
(red.):
Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm.
Abingdon and New York:
Routledge.
221-228.
Lassila, Jussi (2021).
Populism from below and above.
I
Kivinen, Markku & Humphreys, Brendan
(red.):
Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm.
Abingdon and New York:
Routledge.
84-87.
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 (2015).
Neuvostoliitosta nationalismien kirjoon.
I
Kivinen, Markku; Vähäkylä, Leena
(red.):
Venäjän palatseissa ja kaduilla.
Helsinki:
Gaudeamus.
187-196.
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Lassila, Jussi (2015).
Euraasiat vastakkain.
Salon Seudun Sanomat, 5.12.
AsienEuropaRysslandE Publikationer för allmänheten
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.
RysslandC Vetenskapliga böcker (monografier)
Lassila, Jussi (2012).
Making sense of Nashi's political style: The Bronze Soldier and the counter-orange community.
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Laruelle, Marlène
(red.):
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 (2010).
Kun kätketty agenda onkin paljas: Putin-nuorten poliittinen viestintä ja kriittisen diskurssianalyysin haasteet.
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Viljanen, Elina; Aitamurto, Kaarina; Lassila, Jussi; Salmi, Anna-Maria
(red.):
Suuri ja mahtava metodologia: Lähestymistapoja Venäjän ja Itä-Euroopan tutkimukseen.
Helsinki:
Edita.
179-205.
Lassila, Jussi (2009).
Mezhdu kollektivnym vospitaniem i individual'noy stimulyaciey. O diskursakh proprezidentskogo molodezhnogo dvizheniya “Nashi”.
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Příhoda, Marek; Vaňkova, Hana
(red.):
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".
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Omel'chenko, E.; Lukyanova, E.
(red.):
Neokonchatel'nyi analiz...Ksenofobnye nastroeniya v molodezhnoy srede.
123-136.
Lassila, Jussi (2007).
Commissars on the market: discursive commodities of the youth movement NASHI.
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Vanhala-Aniszewski, Marjatta; Siilin, Lea
(red.):
Voices and values of young people: Representations in Russian media.
Helsinki:
Aleksanteri Institute.
99-133.
