Russia (News & Politics)/Expert Profile

Expertise

Cristina Carpinelli is a sociologist/politolog. She deals with research works, from economic and social point of view, concerning Central-Est Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland), South-Est Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, balkan Countries), Russia and all Former Soviet Union Countries. Recently, She has also become an expert on gender issues in Countries mentioned above. She can't answer the questions relative to other geo-economic and political areas or about other questions outside her competence/knowledge. She lives and works in Milan (Italy).

Experience in the area

Cristina Carpinelli wrote many articles and essays on the Ussr and on the transition of the Fsu from a planned economic system to a free market one. She wrote also some books (see below). Now, She is collaborating with some magazines/reviews (The Calendar of People, Slavia, Cassandra, Marxism today ecc.).

Organizations

She is a Scientific Committee Member of Cespi (International Problems Study Center) of Milan - Italy. (www.cespi-ong.org). She is part of the teaching staff of ISPI school (professional diploma for economic operators in Russia) for the training courses "Objective: Russia" (http://www.ispionline.it/it/school.php?id=76). She is a permanent collaborator of the Italian Magazine "noidonne" (www. noidonne.org) and the Italian Magazine on-line "Cassandra" (www.cassandrarivista.it). She is also an editorial staff member of the Italian Magazine on-line "Antonio Gramsci oggi" (www. gramscioggi.org).

Publications

“Soviet society in the years of the perestrojka”, New Authors, Milan 1991; "Women and family in Soviet Russia", F. Angeli, Milan 1998; "Identities in Transition: Fsu Countries after the Collapse of Real Socialism", Cespi, February 2004; "Women and poverty in Russia under El’cin administration (the era of liberal transition)", F. Angeli, Milan 2004; "The contradictions of real socialism in Soviet Union" in 'Marxism Today' n.2/2007; "The Russia in pieces" (Achab, Verona 2008); "The Enlargement of Europe to the Eastern European Countries", Cespi, May 2008.

Education/Credentials

Cristina Carpinelli graduated during the academic year 1983/84 with the thesis "The process of demografic ageing of the population in the Soviet Union" - State University of Milan, Faculty of Political Sciences (Statistics Department). The thesis of degree was elaborated in the Ussr, at the State University Lomonosov of Moscow. For a more detailed professional profile of Cristina Carpinelli, you can connected to: http://www.beepworld.it/members/criliberoit/curriculumenglish.htm