Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)


POLIS Academic

Harald Wydra

College Fellow

Research Interests

Eastern European and Russian politics, comparative democratisation, cultural politics, political anthropology, social theory, interpretive methods in the social sciences.

Selected Publications

Communism and the Emergence of Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) (publisher link).

Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (co-editor and contributor) (BASEES series on Russian and Eastern European Studies, London: Routledge, forthcoming summer 2007).

'Revolution and Democracy - The European Experience,' in John Foran et al. (eds), Understanding Revolution: Social Identities, Globalisation, and Modernity (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2007).

'Contemporary Social Theory in East Central Europe' (with Arpad Szakolczai), in G. Delanty (ed), Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory (London: Routledge, 2005), pp.138-152.

´Les guerres en ex-Yougoslavie´ - vers une lecture événementielle d´un processus de décivilisation´, in Norbert Elias et la théorie de la civilisation (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003), pp. 75-95.

Continuities in Poland´s Permanent Transition (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)