Ideology and meaning-making under the Putin regime /

"Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the mind of Vladimir Putin. Refusing pundits' clichés that depict the Russian regime as either a cynical kleptocracy or the product of Putin�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laruelle, Marlène (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Actors, networks, and structures
  • The sedimentation of ideology
  • The painful relationship to a polysemic West
  • Russia as the second Europe
  • Spiritual security : statehood, patriotism, history
  • Russia's imperialness and the fight for Ukraine
  • Civilization : rejecting Western universalism
  • Conservatism : Russia's answer to liberalism
  • Katechon : reaction and eschatology
  • Eurasia : the transcontinental space
  • Russian world : from messianism to irredentism
  • Anticolonialism : Russia as a Global South power.