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.
Honorary title
Adjunct Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Language and Communication Studies
Expertise
Russian domestic politics, in particular identity politics, nationalism, political movements, populism, political rhetoric and communication
Degrees
PhD, University of Jyväskylä (2011).
Language skills
Finnish, English, Russian, Estonian, Swedish (reading and listening)
Lassila, Jussi (2021).
An unattainable ideal: Youth and patriotism in Russia.
In
Katri Pynnöniemi
ed(s):
Nexus of Patriotism and Militarism in Russia. A Quest for Internal Cohesion.
Helsinki:
Helsinki University Press.
119-149.
RussiaA Peer-reviewed scientific articles
Gel’man, Vladimir; Kangaspuro, Markku; Nikula, Jouko; Lassila, Jussi; Heusala, Anna-Liisa; Khmelnitskaya, Marina & Starodubtsev, Andrey (2021).
Authoritarian modernization in Post-Soviet Russia: Structures, agencies, and choices.
In
Kivinen, Markku & Humphreys, Brendan
ed(s):
Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm.
Abingdon and New York:
Routledge.
71-105.
RussiaA Peer-reviewed scientific articles
Kangaspuro, Markku & Lassila, Jussi (2021).
Conservative turn and populist opposition.
In
Kivinen, Markku & Humphreys, Brendan
ed(s):
Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm.
Abingdon and New York:
Routledge.
221-228.
Lassila, Jussi (2021).
Populism from below and above.
In
Kivinen, Markku & Humphreys, Brendan
ed(s):
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.
In
Kivinen, Markku; Vähäkylä, Leena
ed(s):
Venäjän palatseissa ja kaduilla.
Helsinki:
Gaudeamus.
187-196.
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.
RussiaC Scientific books (monographs)
Lassila, Jussi (2012).
Making sense of Nashi's political style: The Bronze Soldier and the counter-orange community.
In
Laruelle, Marlène
ed(s):
Russian nationalism, foreign policy and identity debates in Putin's Russia: New ideological patterns after the Orange Revolution.
Stutgart:
ibidem Press.
105-138.
RussiaA Peer-reviewed scientific articles
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.
In
Viljanen, Elina; Aitamurto, Kaarina; Lassila, Jussi; Salmi, Anna-Maria
ed(s):
Suuri ja mahtava metodologia: Lähestymistapoja Venäjän ja Itä-Euroopan tutkimukseen.
Helsinki:
Edita.
179-205.
RussiaA Peer-reviewed scientific articles
Lassila, Jussi; Viljanen, Elina; Aitamurto, Kaarina & Salmi, Anna-Maria
ed(s)
(2010).
Suuri ja mahtava metodologia?: Lähestymistapoja Venäjän ja Itä-Euroopan tutkimukseen.
Helsinki:
Edita.
Lassila, Jussi (2009).
Mezhdu kollektivnym vospitaniem i individual'noy stimulyaciey. O diskursakh proprezidentskogo molodezhnogo dvizheniya “Nashi”.
In
Příhoda, Marek; Vaňkova, Hana
ed(s):
Unknown host publication.
39-47.
RussiaA Peer-reviewed scientific articles
Lassila, Jussi (2009).
Druzhba narodov i "black and white parties": Bor'ba s fashizmom v ritorike Demokraticheskogo Antifashistskogo Molodezhnogo Dvizheniya "NASHI".
In
Omel'chenko, E.; Lukyanova, E.
ed(s):
Neokonchatel'nyi analiz...Ksenofobnye nastroeniya v molodezhnoy srede.
123-136.
Lassila, Jussi (2007).
Commissars on the market: discursive commodities of the youth movement NASHI.
In
Vanhala-Aniszewski, Marjatta; Siilin, Lea
ed(s):
Voices and values of young people: Representations in Russian media.
Helsinki:
Aleksanteri Institute.
99-133.
