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Record Nr.

UNINA9910369906403321

Autore

Langdon Kate C

Titolo

Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy : Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century / / by Kate C. Langdon, Vladimir Tismaneanu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-20579-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Disciplina

947

947.0864

Soggetti

Comparative politics

Russia—Politics and government

Political leadership

Legislative bodies

Diplomacy

Comparative Politics

Russian and Post-Soviet Politics

Political Leadership

Legislative and Executive Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Recentering Putinism -- 2. The Inheritance of an Autocratic Legend -- 3. Enter “the Hero” -- 4. The Intellectual Origins of Putinism -- 5. Putinism as a Culture in the Making -- 6. Russian Nationalism in Education, the Media, and Religion -- 7. Russian Foreign Policy: Freedom for Whom, to Do What? -- 8. The New Dark Times. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia. In carefully examining the ideological underpinnings of Putinism—its tsarist and Soviet elements, its intellectual origins, its culturally reproductive nature, and its imperialist foreign policy—the authors reveal that an indoctrinating ideology and a willing population are simultaneously the most crucial yet overlooked



keys to analyzing Putin’s totalitarian democracy. Because Putinism is part of a global wave of extreme political movements, the book also reaffirms the need to understand—but not accept—how and why nation-states and masses turn to nationalism, authoritarianism, or totalitarianism in modern times. Kate C. Langdon is an Erasmus Mundus scholar. She studied at Vassar College in New York and Charles University in Prague. Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA. .