Allyson Edwards
@allysonedwards1.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Global Histories and IR 👩🎓 Interested in Russia, youth militarisation and memory politics 💭 love travelling & food 🍜
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Looking forward to presenting work that @allysonedwards1.bsky.social and I have been doing on youth militarisation in #Russia today at a workshop at @swp-berlin.org in #Berlin
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Looking forward to presenting work that @allysonedwards1.bsky.social and I have been doing on youth militarisation in #Russia today at a workshop at @swp-berlin.org in #Berlin
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Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...
✨ Pleased to see my article w/ Maryna Shevtsova & Katerina Krulisova has been published in the Journal of Pol and Mil Sociology.
The article explores 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺 & 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸 media representations of the ICCs arrest warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova & Vladimir Putin.
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/article...
The article explores 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺 & 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸 media representations of the ICCs arrest warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova & Vladimir Putin.
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/article...
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
✨ Pleased to see my article w/ Maryna Shevtsova & Katerina Krulisova has been published in the Journal of Pol and Mil Sociology.
The article explores 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺 & 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸 media representations of the ICCs arrest warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova & Vladimir Putin.
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/article...
The article explores 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺 & 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸 media representations of the ICCs arrest warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova & Vladimir Putin.
journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/article...
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#OpEd Parents cannot just assume that their children will not be affected by attempts to brainwash them. They must take decisive action, recommends teacher Dima Zitser.
How Russian Parents Can Protect Their Children from Indoctrination in Schools - The Moscow Times
Opinion | Starting on Sept.1, trial runs of “conversations about important things” began in kindergartens — targeting children as young as three to seven in over 100 kindergartens across Russia and oc...
www.themoscowtimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#OpEd Parents cannot just assume that their children will not be affected by attempts to brainwash them. They must take decisive action, recommends teacher Dima Zitser.
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The militarization of Russian children continues: www.reuters.com/world/we-thr...
'We threw hand grenades!' Russian kids as young as 8 get taste of military training
Schoolchildren enjoyed a riverside adventure this week, but it was no ordinary holiday camp.
www.reuters.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The militarization of Russian children continues: www.reuters.com/world/we-thr...
Lavrov wears a USSR sweatshirt, & people will still comment: "wHaT aBOuT NaTo?"
August 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Lavrov wears a USSR sweatshirt, & people will still comment: "wHaT aBOuT NaTo?"
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Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges...
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges...
US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
August 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges...
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges...
Starting our ✨official✨ honeymoon off (only 10 months after the fact) with a wedding trip for friends!
Looking less beaut, and much more travel friendly today as we start our journey to Chile! 🇨🇱
Looking less beaut, and much more travel friendly today as we start our journey to Chile! 🇨🇱
August 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Starting our ✨official✨ honeymoon off (only 10 months after the fact) with a wedding trip for friends!
Looking less beaut, and much more travel friendly today as we start our journey to Chile! 🇨🇱
Looking less beaut, and much more travel friendly today as we start our journey to Chile! 🇨🇱
Last minute preparations are underway for my presentation at #IPSA2025 tomorrow morning. I'll be presenting mine & @jgmaber.bsky.social work on a panel with my wonderful colleagues. If you're an early bird with an interest in Ukraine and Russia, come find us at 9am.
July 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Last minute preparations are underway for my presentation at #IPSA2025 tomorrow morning. I'll be presenting mine & @jgmaber.bsky.social work on a panel with my wonderful colleagues. If you're an early bird with an interest in Ukraine and Russia, come find us at 9am.
I'm on my way to Seoul for #IPSA2025 to present mine and @jgmaber.bsky.social work on Russian youth militarization.
This paper will eventually become the introduction to our book, and applies a feminist IR lens to youth militarization.
Reach out if you want to meet for a ☕!
This paper will eventually become the introduction to our book, and applies a feminist IR lens to youth militarization.
Reach out if you want to meet for a ☕!
July 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm on my way to Seoul for #IPSA2025 to present mine and @jgmaber.bsky.social work on Russian youth militarization.
This paper will eventually become the introduction to our book, and applies a feminist IR lens to youth militarization.
Reach out if you want to meet for a ☕!
This paper will eventually become the introduction to our book, and applies a feminist IR lens to youth militarization.
Reach out if you want to meet for a ☕!
Who else is going to be at #IPSA2025 in Seoul? I'll be presenting mine and @jgmaber.bsky.social work on feminist approaches to Russian youth militarisation! Reach out if you fancy a coffee ☕
June 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Who else is going to be at #IPSA2025 in Seoul? I'll be presenting mine and @jgmaber.bsky.social work on feminist approaches to Russian youth militarisation! Reach out if you fancy a coffee ☕
For the first time in years, I won't be at BISA 😭 will miss catching up with the BEST people. 💔
June 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
For the first time in years, I won't be at BISA 😭 will miss catching up with the BEST people. 💔
Oh noooo 🙄
BREAKING | ChatGPT down: OpenAI reports major outage as users see error message
ChatGPT down: OpenAI reports major outage as users see error message
OpenAI reports the chatbot is seeing a widespread outage
www.independent.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Oh noooo 🙄
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🧵NEW research: How is the Russian state turning young people into patriots via Telegram? Spoiler: It’s not just about war—it’s about influencers.
We analyzed hundreds of posts by two state youth leaders. What we found is disturbing.👇
We analyzed hundreds of posts by two state youth leaders. What we found is disturbing.👇
June 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🧵NEW research: How is the Russian state turning young people into patriots via Telegram? Spoiler: It’s not just about war—it’s about influencers.
We analyzed hundreds of posts by two state youth leaders. What we found is disturbing.👇
We analyzed hundreds of posts by two state youth leaders. What we found is disturbing.👇
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A new Stalin monument in a Moscow metro station is not just historical revisionism — it is a signal. As Putin deepens authoritarian rule and isolates Russia from the West, the glorification of a dictator responsible for mass terror is no coincidence. Nearly 700,000 were executed under Stalin. 1/2
May 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A new Stalin monument in a Moscow metro station is not just historical revisionism — it is a signal. As Putin deepens authoritarian rule and isolates Russia from the West, the glorification of a dictator responsible for mass terror is no coincidence. Nearly 700,000 were executed under Stalin. 1/2
✨Excited to share our research "Creating Good Young Patriots," which was published as an Advance Article in
@cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social!
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...
@cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social!
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...
May 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
✨Excited to share our research "Creating Good Young Patriots," which was published as an Advance Article in
@cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social!
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...
@cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social!
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...
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Ahead of #Russia's Victory Day celebrations tomorrow, my new piece co-authored with @jgmaber.bsky.social is out in The Conversation! It examines the Kremlin's obsession that its youth know and understand the #Kremlin's version of the past: theconversation.com/russia-looks...
Russia looks to frame war as an inevitable part of life on Victory Day
Russian political figures are worried that young people nowadays are disconnected from their heritage.
theconversation.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ahead of #Russia's Victory Day celebrations tomorrow, my new piece co-authored with @jgmaber.bsky.social is out in The Conversation! It examines the Kremlin's obsession that its youth know and understand the #Kremlin's version of the past: theconversation.com/russia-looks...
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"A celebration of military mothers", right up there with introducing patriotic education. Trump is taking another leaf out of Putin's book. 👀
May 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"A celebration of military mothers", right up there with introducing patriotic education. Trump is taking another leaf out of Putin's book. 👀
I remember reading somewhere (though can't remember the exact source) that for fundamental change to happen, it needs to happen over roughly two generations (roughly 40 years).
Twenty years might be optimistic considering the efforts of the Russian state to sow the seeds of Great Patriotic War worship in the next generation - see the article that @allysonedwards1.bsky.social and I recently published in International Affairs:
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
May 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I remember reading somewhere (though can't remember the exact source) that for fundamental change to happen, it needs to happen over roughly two generations (roughly 40 years).
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Reform is pointing to Russia as a model. @allysonedwards1.bsky.social and I study patriotic education in #Russia and it is not a harmless way of teaching young people about their history. You can read some of our research here - it's open access (free)! ⬇️
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
May 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Reform is pointing to Russia as a model. @allysonedwards1.bsky.social and I study patriotic education in #Russia and it is not a harmless way of teaching young people about their history. You can read some of our research here - it's open access (free)! ⬇️
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
Just submitted a piece of mine & @jgmaber.bsky.social work, so I've awarded myself by doing three loads of washing & spending some time reading in the garden.
April 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Just submitted a piece of mine & @jgmaber.bsky.social work, so I've awarded myself by doing three loads of washing & spending some time reading in the garden.
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ursula von der leyen tells zeit newspaper: “the west as we knew it no longer exists.”
"europe is still a peace project. we don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. we don't invade our neighbors, and we don't punish them."
"europe is still a peace project. we don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. we don't invade our neighbors, and we don't punish them."
April 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
ursula von der leyen tells zeit newspaper: “the west as we knew it no longer exists.”
"europe is still a peace project. we don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. we don't invade our neighbors, and we don't punish them."
"europe is still a peace project. we don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. we don't invade our neighbors, and we don't punish them."
Eating & walking in a new city!
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April 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Eating & walking in a new city!
☀️🥶
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