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Dr. Vadim Viktorovitch Volkov is Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology at the European University at St.Petersburg. He teaches courses in Contemporary Social Theory; Classical Foundation of Social Theory, Problems of Civil Society and the Public Sphere; and a seminar series entitled, "Sociology of Everyday Life: Theory and History of Practices."

Dr. Volkov received his education at Cambridge University, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and the Leningrad State University Faculty of Economics. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from University of Cambridge in 1995.

Dr. Volkov has also taught at Cambridge University and in the Department of Political Economy of the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics. In 1989, he conducted a research project on student movements in Lithuania and Ukraine for the Moscow Center for Research in Law and Politics.

His relevant publications include:

	"General Introduction" (in co-authorship). In D. Shepherd and C. Kelly (Eds.) Introduction to Russian Cultural Studies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming, 1998.
	"The Concept of Kul'turnost': Notes on the Stalinist Civilizing Process." In C. Kiaer and E. Naiman (Eds) Everyday Subjects: Formation of Identities in Early-Soviet Russia, Cornell University Press, forthcoming, 1998.
	"Limits to Propaganda: The Soviet Power and the Peasant Reader in the 1920s." In J. Raven (Ed.) Non-Commercial Print in Comparative Perspective, The University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming.
	"The Concept of Practices in the Social Sciences," Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, 1997, No 6.
	"Obshchestvennost': Russia's Lost Concept of Civil Society," Pro et Contra, 1997, No 4.

The title of his paper at the Conference is: "When the State Is Weak, Who Is Strong? Russia's New Configuration of Social Groups."