E-mail: i.garner@instytutpileckiego.pl 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0219-0501 
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ian-Garner-8 

Biographical note

Ian Garner 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. Before coming to the Pilecki Institute, he taught at the University of Toronto and Queen’s University, Ontario. Ian Garner is an honorary fellow at the Centre for International & Defence Policy in Kingston, Canada, and regularly comments and writes for major media outlets across the world. In 2024, he became a member of the Royal Historical Society in London.

Research/academic interests

• Russian and Soviet military culture;
• Russian and Soviet propaganda.

Selected publications

Academic papers

• Garner Ian Roland. Creating Good Young Patriots. In: Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 2025. DOI: 10.1525/cpcs.2025.2465591. URL: https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-pdf/doi/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2465591/883254/cpcs.2025.2465591.pdf.
• Garner Ian Roland. I Try Not to Think of Afghanistan: Lithuanian Veterans of the Soviet War, written by Anna Reich. In: The Soviet and post-Soviet Review. 2025. DOI: 10.30965/18763324-bja10121. URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/spsr/aop/article-10.30965-18763324-bja10121/article-10.30965-18763324-bja10121.xml.
• Garner Ian Roland. (2026). An ecology of everyday violence: Russian Telegram discourse and war atrocities in Ukraine. Contemporary Military Challenges. 2026, 28(1).
• Garner Ian Roland. The culture of the second Cold War. In: International Affairs. 2025, 6(101). DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiaf199.
• Garner Ian Roland. Everyday foreign policy: performing and consuming the Russian nation after Crimea. In: International Affairs. 2024, 5. DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiae193. 
• Garner Ian Roland. Fighting the Online War: Online Russian Nationalists and the Discourse of Stalingrad in the Early 2010s. In: Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics. 2024, 2(18). DOI: 10.2478/jnmlp-2024-0009. URL: https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/jnmlp-2024-0009

Monographs

• Garner Ian Roland. Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia’s Fascist Youth. Hurst Publishers, 2023.
• Garner Ian Roland. Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228015161

Chapters in monographs

• Garner Ian Roland. Building a future past. Early representations of the reconstruction of Stalingrad. In: The German-Soviet War. Combat, occupation, and legacies. 2025.
• Garner Ian Roland. Mass destruction and Ukrainian erasure: the fascist rebirth of ‘Great Russia’ in Mariupol. In: Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine. 2025. URL: https://www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/Social-Sciences/Political-Science/Russia-and-Modern-Fascism.html 
• Garner Ian Roland. Russia’s twenty-first century fascism. In: Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine. 2025. URL: https://www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/Social-Sciences/Political-Science/Russia-and-Modern-Fascism.html.
• Garner Ian Roland. The Duty to Destroy: Russian Identity Formation and Human (In)Security in Mariupol. In: War and Human Security in an Evolving World. 2025. URL: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6034150d85deb0136ad574f2/t/68d2aa49719feb2916e9f790/1758636617460/KCIS+2024_web+v2.pdf
• Garner Ian Roland. Putin’s youth and the TikTok war. Creating the militarized self in Russian adolescents. In: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution. Routledge. ISBN: 9781032797694. 2024.

Volume editor

• Garner Ian Roland, Kuzio Taras (ed.). Russia and Modern Fascism. New Perspectives on the Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine. ibidem Press, 2025.

Participation in academic and organizational activities 

Participation in research projects

• Research team member: The Militarization of Russian Society (Danish Institute of International Studies);
• Manager: From Archive to Network: Mapping and Understanding Connective Digital Memory of World War 2 in Russia.

Membership in editorial bodies

• Associate Editor of Post-Soviet Affairs;
• Member of the editorial board of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.

Membership in academic associations and organizations

• Royal Historical Society in London;
• British International Studies Association;
• British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies.