A Professor in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Director of Undergraduate Teaching for Politics and International Relations at the University, Luke March is the current Deputy Director of the Dashkova Centre. Professor Luke March Deputy Director Princess Dashkova Russian Centre University of Edinburgh Contact details Email: l.march@ed.ac.uk Luke joined Politics and International Relations in 1999 from Birmingham University, where he finished his PhD and held a temporary post as lecturer in Russian Politics. He spent much of the late 1990s working on the communist left in the former USSR, in particular its ideological and organisational development and influence on democratisation. This research led to several publications including The Communist Party in Post-Soviet Russia, which received a five-star review from Political Studies. His next book, Radical Left Parties in Contemporary Europehas been submitted to Routledge, and is expected to be published in late 2010. He is also working with Richard Dunphy of Dundee University on The European Left Party: A Case Study in Transnational Party Building (Manchester University Press, 2011). Research Luke is currently working on the radical left in Europe and Russia, left-wing populism, and radicalisation and violence in Russia (with Roland Dannreuther) as part of an ESRC research project which concluded in December 2009. His main foci at the moment are research on the European Left Party with Richard Dunphy, Russian nationalism and foreign policy and Russian party politics. Luke has membership in the following Research Groups: Public Opinion,Parties and Elections, International Politics. His research interests include: Russian and Moldovan politics Soviet and post-Soviet politics The radical left in Europe Democratisation (specifically political parties, electoral politics and institution-building) Communism and Russian nationalism Luke welcomes applications from students considering research in the fields of post-Soviet politics (especially, but not exclusively, Russia and Moldova), populism, the politics of the left and democratisation. For a full publication list and current teaching and research activity please see: Dr Luke March's profile page on Politics and International Relations website This article was published on 2024-08-13