Kirill Petrov
Biographic Data
| ID | 4398268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirill Petrov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirill |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrov |
| SIGNATURE | PETROV K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9136-2717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Colorless Revolution. Elite Rotations in Post-Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan
The first power transition in contemporary Kazakhstan started in 2019 after long-term president Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped aside. Top-down rotations of elites are one of the key methods post-Soviet leaders use to manage patronal states. The staffing policy of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Nazarbayev’s successor, is no exception, although the process turned out to be extended over several years, since Tokayev inherited the elite network his p…
Community Tied in Common Body and Bodies Created by a Common Affect
The concept of “enactment” refers to the idea of the contingency of the body/technology boundary and as such it’s the basis for the emerging multiple ontologies of bodies in the Annemarie Mol’s texts. However, “enactment” does not mean the absolute malleability of the body. For authors working within the framework of actornetwork theory the body has its own irreducible materiality. Following diabetic patients, Mol and John Lo show the tensions an…
Challenges of Agora of Digital Society
The article attempts to use the theory of conceptual metaphor to compare distant communicative practices of Ancient Greece and modern times. The author interprets digital communications and social media as Digital Agora, or Agora 2.0. Just as during ancient times the influence of the Agora made the Athenian aristocracy reckon with the demos, the influence of social media has significantly reshaped the modern political process, limiting the former…
From quantitative measurement to understanding public demand
The article builds on the well-developed problem of studying trust in society towards social institutions, as well as between individuals. Currently, contact quantitative sociology faces a number of challenges, and the level of consent to participate in surveys is steadily falling. In order to reliably assess public opinion, non-contact tools for studying the digital environment are already required. The application of non-survey techniques for c…
Nomenklatura Roots of the Russian Elite
The article is devoted to understanding the origins of the Russian political elite. Relying on the empirical material of 2021, the authors study whether social ties in the Soviet managing class called “nomenklatura” is an important factor determining the position within the top echelon of the Russian political elite. In order to explore the genesis of the Russian political elite, we used a cross-methodological approach as well as the research met…
Putin’s Rise to Power
The article is devoted to the current state of the discussion around transition of power in Russia in 1999-2001. The authors rely both on the patronal approach to show post-Soviet specificity and on the theory of neo-elitism to show its universal features. This transition was the point at which the highly differentiated post-Soviet elite was able to create a fragile base for integration. The article shows that it is possible to apply the theory o…
Long Soviet shadows
Recent studies of Putin-era elites have focused primarily on the role of siloviki. We bring the focus back to an analysis of the elite continuity within the Soviet regime. By compiling a dataset of the Putin-regime elites, we track their professional and family backgrounds to discover that the proportion of Putin-regime elites with Soviet nomenklatura origin (which comprised only 1–3% of the population during the Soviet period) constitutes approx…
Mapping Controversies in Neuroscience
The study of controversies is an important methodological tool for understanding key aspects of scientific activity that are invisible from within the science itself. Following Sarah Whatmore, we argue that controversies are a force field within which there is a redistribution of expertise. As an application of the basic principles of ANT, the mapping of controversies lacks the disadvantages of constructivist and epistemological approaches to sci…
Elites and Color Revolutions
The phenomenon of color revolutions has occupied a prominent place in Russian politics for a good reason. The major threat of color revolutions as modern political warfare designed by Western countries deeply affected the political process in Russia since 2005. It may have appeared that the imperative of resisting them was the result of a non-democratic regime reacting to neighboring countries’ uprisings. Some portrayed it as authoritarian learni…
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao – Bangsamoro Republic
Since XV-th century, when first Muslim state has been formed at Mindanao island in the south of the Philippines, practically two very different societies had to co-exist on the territory of the country: Muslims and Filipinos. It created a problem ad numerous conflicts which have not been solved so far. The aggravation between the Filipinos and the inhabitants of the southern island of Mindanao, which occurred in the XX-th century, led to a series…
Do elites matter in Russian foreign policy? The gap between self-perception and influence
This article analyzes the findings of the Survey of Russian Elites from the perspective of Russian elites’ perceptions of their individual and group influence on Russian foreign policy. In the current Russian elite structure, state enterprise managers, executive branch officials, and military/security officers are far more influential than members of other sub-groups when it comes to foreign policy. However, the survey results show that despite b…
The “Europe” Concept in Modern Political Discourse
В статье предпринята попытка создания внутренне когерентной объяснительной модели функционирования концепта «Европа» (и поддерживающих дискурсов) в политике Европейского Союза. Путем анализа метафорических систем, кроющихся за этим концептом, и производной от него категории «европейская идентичность» автор объясняет, каким образом конкретный денотативно географический «термин», обросший многовековыми слоями разнообразных значений, может создавать…
Do elites matter in Russian foreign policy? The gap between self-perception and influence
This article analyzes the findings of the Survey of Russian Elites from the perspective of Russian elites’ perceptions of their individual and group influence on Russian foreign policy. In the current Russian elite structure, state enterprise managers, executive branch officials, and military/security officers are far more influential than members of other sub-groups when it comes to foreign policy. However, the survey results show that despite b…
Long Soviet shadows
Recent studies of Putin-era elites have focused primarily on the role of siloviki. We bring the focus back to an analysis of the elite continuity within the Soviet regime. By compiling a dataset of the Putin-regime elites, we track their professional and family backgrounds to discover that the proportion of Putin-regime elites with Soviet nomenklatura origin (which comprised only 1–3% of the population during the Soviet period) constitutes approx…
Elites and Color Revolutions
The phenomenon of color revolutions has occupied a prominent place in Russian politics for a good reason. The major threat of color revolutions as modern political warfare designed by Western countries deeply affected the political process in Russia since 2005. It may have appeared that the imperative of resisting them was the result of a non-democratic regime reacting to neighboring countries’ uprisings. Some portrayed it as authoritarian learni…
The “Europe” Concept in Modern Political Discourse
В статье предпринята попытка создания внутренне когерентной объяснительной модели функционирования концепта «Европа» (и поддерживающих дискурсов) в политике Европейского Союза. Путем анализа метафорических систем, кроющихся за этим концептом, и производной от него категории «европейская идентичность» автор объясняет, каким образом конкретный денотативно географический «термин», обросший многовековыми слоями разнообразных значений, может создавать…
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao – Bangsamoro Republic
Since XV-th century, when first Muslim state has been formed at Mindanao island in the south of the Philippines, practically two very different societies had to co-exist on the territory of the country: Muslims and Filipinos. It created a problem ad numerous conflicts which have not been solved so far. The aggravation between the Filipinos and the inhabitants of the southern island of Mindanao, which occurred in the XX-th century, led to a series…
Do elites matter in Russian foreign policy? The gap between self-perception and influence
This article analyzes the findings of the Survey of Russian Elites from the perspective of Russian elites’ perceptions of their individual and group influence on Russian foreign policy. In the current Russian elite structure, state enterprise managers, executive branch officials, and military/security officers are far more influential than members of other sub-groups when it comes to foreign policy. However, the survey results show that despite b…
Mapping Controversies in Neuroscience
The study of controversies is an important methodological tool for understanding key aspects of scientific activity that are invisible from within the science itself. Following Sarah Whatmore, we argue that controversies are a force field within which there is a redistribution of expertise. As an application of the basic principles of ANT, the mapping of controversies lacks the disadvantages of constructivist and epistemological approaches to sci…
Elites and Color Revolutions
The phenomenon of color revolutions has occupied a prominent place in Russian politics for a good reason. The major threat of color revolutions as modern political warfare designed by Western countries deeply affected the political process in Russia since 2005. It may have appeared that the imperative of resisting them was the result of a non-democratic regime reacting to neighboring countries’ uprisings. Some portrayed it as authoritarian learni…
Nomenklatura Roots of the Russian Elite
The article is devoted to understanding the origins of the Russian political elite. Relying on the empirical material of 2021, the authors study whether social ties in the Soviet managing class called “nomenklatura” is an important factor determining the position within the top echelon of the Russian political elite. In order to explore the genesis of the Russian political elite, we used a cross-methodological approach as well as the research met…
Putin’s Rise to Power
The article is devoted to the current state of the discussion around transition of power in Russia in 1999-2001. The authors rely both on the patronal approach to show post-Soviet specificity and on the theory of neo-elitism to show its universal features. This transition was the point at which the highly differentiated post-Soviet elite was able to create a fragile base for integration. The article shows that it is possible to apply the theory o…
Long Soviet shadows
Recent studies of Putin-era elites have focused primarily on the role of siloviki. We bring the focus back to an analysis of the elite continuity within the Soviet regime. By compiling a dataset of the Putin-regime elites, we track their professional and family backgrounds to discover that the proportion of Putin-regime elites with Soviet nomenklatura origin (which comprised only 1–3% of the population during the Soviet period) constitutes approx…
Challenges of Agora of Digital Society
The article attempts to use the theory of conceptual metaphor to compare distant communicative practices of Ancient Greece and modern times. The author interprets digital communications and social media as Digital Agora, or Agora 2.0. Just as during ancient times the influence of the Agora made the Athenian aristocracy reckon with the demos, the influence of social media has significantly reshaped the modern political process, limiting the former…
From quantitative measurement to understanding public demand
The article builds on the well-developed problem of studying trust in society towards social institutions, as well as between individuals. Currently, contact quantitative sociology faces a number of challenges, and the level of consent to participate in surveys is steadily falling. In order to reliably assess public opinion, non-contact tools for studying the digital environment are already required. The application of non-survey techniques for c…
Community Tied in Common Body and Bodies Created by a Common Affect
The concept of “enactment” refers to the idea of the contingency of the body/technology boundary and as such it’s the basis for the emerging multiple ontologies of bodies in the Annemarie Mol’s texts. However, “enactment” does not mean the absolute malleability of the body. For authors working within the framework of actornetwork theory the body has its own irreducible materiality. Following diabetic patients, Mol and John Lo show the tensions an…
Colorless Revolution. Elite Rotations in Post-Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan
The first power transition in contemporary Kazakhstan started in 2019 after long-term president Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped aside. Top-down rotations of elites are one of the key methods post-Soviet leaders use to manage patronal states. The staffing policy of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Nazarbayev’s successor, is no exception, although the process turned out to be extended over several years, since Tokayev inherited the elite network his p…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Elite (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Power (physics (3 works)