Gudrun Persson

Gudrun Persson is Associate Professor at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Stockholm University. She obtained her PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and specialises in Russian history and politics, as well as military strategy. She is the author of several books, including Learning from Foreign Wars: Russian Military Thinking 1859–73 and Det sovjetiska arvet (The Soviet Legacy). Persson is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences.