Publications

My research has focused on comparative democracy and authoritarianism, mass protests and historical patterns of human capital and democratic reproduction in Russia and other states. A recently completed project analyzed the dynamics of protest and civic activism in Russia. I also worked with Kohei Watanabe to apply innovative supervised machine learning techniques to analyze Russian media manipulation of popular discontent at home and abroad. The Lankina Russian Protest Event Dataset has been now released and is available from this link.

Over the last five years, I have been refocusing my attention from more immediate dynamics of political contention and regime responses to it, to deeper historical questions probing the long reach of history in understanding both the nature of inequalities in Russian and other societies now, and their implications for democracy. Some of this research has been published already and there are also working papers in the pipeline with Alexander Libman and Katerina Tertytchnaya.

Please see the sublinks to view my books and articles, work in progress, public engagements, and datasets.