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Ian Garner is Assistant Professor at the Center for Totalitarian Studies, Pilecki Institute, Warsaw. He received his PhD from the Slavic Department at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 2017, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the myth of the Battle of Stalingrad. A specialist in history and politics, his research interests primarily lie in Russian and Soviet military culture and propaganda. He is the author of two books, Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth (Hurst/Oxford, 2023) and Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat & Survival (McGill-Queen's, 2022) and the co-editor of Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine (ibidem/Columbia, 2025). He regularly comments and writes for major media outlets across the world. In 2024, Dr. Garner was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Research interest

• War propaganda
• Russia and Soviet Union
• Identity

Recent Publications

• Garner, I., & Kuzio, T. (Eds.) (2025). Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine. Ibidem/Columbia UP. 
• Garner, I., & Edwards, A. (2025). Creating Good Young Patriots: Russian Youth Leaders on Telegram and the War against Ukraine. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 
• Garner, I. (2025). Building a Future Past: Early Representations of the Reconstruction of Stalingrad. In Rutherford, J., & von Maier, R. (Eds.). The German-Soviet War: Combat, Occupation, and Legacies. Cornell University Press.
• Garner, I. (2024). Fighting the Online War: Online Russian Nationalists and the Discourse of Stalingrad in the Early 2010s. Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics. 
• Garner, I. (2023). Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth. Hurst/Oxford UP. 

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