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Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century

By Vladimir Tismaneanu , Kate C. Langdon

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
3030205789, 9783030205799
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2610854 bytes)
Pages
256\256
Time added
2019-08-01 15:30:48
ideologyMYTHTotalitarian DemocracyTwenty-First CenturyViolenceVladimir Putin

Description

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.

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