Mark Beissinger
Mark R. Beissinger is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton and Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). His recent writings have dealt with such topics as individual participation in the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and in the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions, the impact of new social media on opposition movements in autocratic regimes, Russian imperialism in Eurasia, the historical legacies of communism, the relationship between nationalism and democracy, the impact of the Great Recession on protest in the post-communist states, and the evolving character of revolutions globally over the last century. He is the author of Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge University Press 2002) and the co-editor (with Stephen Kotkin) of Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press 2014).