Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the cyclic process of decline and fall of Russia's imperial polity.

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Dr. Igor Torbakov studied history at Moscow State University and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is a Senior Fellow at the Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He was a visiting researcher at the Kennan Institute, at Columbia and Harvard, at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and at the German Council on Foreign Relations. His articles have appeared in Nationalities Papers, Ab Imperio, Demokratizatsiya, The Harriman Review, Transition Studies Review, Slavic & East European Information Resources, Mediterranean Quarterly, Scando-Slavica, Insight Turkey, Slavianovedenie, Turkish Review of Eurasian Studies, and The Finnish Journal on Russian and East European Studies.