Ivo Mijnssen

Ivo Mijnssen, M.A., is a doctoral researcher at the Basel Graduate School of History. He currently holds a Gerda Henkel Foundation Scholarship and is working on his dissertation “Life in the Hero City: The Post-War Generation During the Brezhnev Ea.” He studied at Brown University, the University of Basel, and at Stanford University. He contributed a chapter to the collected volume Identities and Politics during the Putin Presidency (ibidem-Verlag, 2009) and writes for various newspapers and websites about Russia.