Description: "Explains the dynamics and mechanisms behind the backlash against sex and gender based human rights in eastern Europe and the Orthodox world and shows how Russia came to assume a leadership role in the global culture wars"--
Brief description: Kristina Stoeckl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The most recent of her books are The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (Routledge, 2014) and Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism (Brill, 2020).
Review Quotes: In their short but in-depth book, Stoeckl and Uzlaner offer an interpretation of Russia's powerful shift toward moral conservatism and "traditional values" under President Vladimir Putin. . . [T]hey demonstrate the importance of transnational influences in Russia's embrace of conservatism and explore Russia's place in the global culture wars.-- "Foreign Affairs"