| Putin's Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Langdon, Kate C. (Author), Tismaneanu, Vladimir (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030205789 ISBN-13: 9783030205782 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Russian & Former Soviet Union - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy |
| Dewey: 320 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
