Evert van der Zweerde (born 1958) studied philosophy and Russian in Nijmegen (Netherlands), Moscow (USSR) and Fribourg (Switzerland). After defending his PhD, Soviet Historiography of Philosophy; Istoriko-filosofskaja nauka (Dordrecht: Kluwer 1997), he has worked as lecturer and professor of Social and Political Philosophy at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands). His research focuses on political philosophy, esp. theory of democracy, and Russian philosophy. He has led and supervised several collective research projects, including “Repertoires of Democracy”, which resulted in Creative Crises of Democracy (Peter Lang, 2011), “Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus”, which yielded a book with the same title (Routledge, 2015), and, currently, “Vive la commune! Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire”. He is also co-founder of the Radboud-based “Democratisch Laboratorium”. Most recent publication: Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy (Edinburgh UP, 2022).