Russia and the 2020 Elections-what is Putin’s game plan? with Christopher Miller

Chris Miller is assistant professor of international history at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and co-director of the school’s Russia and Eurasia Program. He is author of  Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia (2018) and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy (2016). 

He has previously served as the associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University and his B.A. in history from Harvard University.

ARTICLES
“The Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie: How the Soviet Union Lost Faith in State-led Economic Development,” History of Political Economy (2019)
“Georgii Mirskii and Soviet Theories of Authoritarian Modernization,” International History Review (2017)
“Economic Take-Off or Great Leap Forward: Soviet Assessments of Chinese Economic Reforms during Perestroika,” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (2016)
“Gorbachev’s Agricultural Reforms and the Politics of Perestroika,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (2016)

BOOKS
“Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia,” The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
“The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR,” The University of North Carolina Press, 2016