Ilya Platov

Ilya Platov is an associate professor and researcher in the Russian department of INALCO, the National Institute of Languages and Oriental Civilizations in Paris. He has obtained his Habilitation in 2017 at Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 for his work on the Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin. He is the author of a doctoral thesis The Slavic Crusade: War, Culture and Memory in Russia and in the Balkans, 1876-1914 [In French]. He is a specialist of Russian cultural history in the 19th-early 20th century, with a specific focus on wartime culture, sacred & symbolic sources of national identity.