Ideology and meaning-making under the Putin regime / Marlene Laruelle.

Author/creator Laruelle, Marlène author.
Format Book
PublicationStanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2025.
Descriptionpages cm
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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.
Abstract "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's grand Machiavellian designs, Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime offers a critical genealogy of ideology in Russia today. Marlene Laruelle provides an innovative, multi-method analysis of the Russian regime's ideological production process and the ways it is operationalized in both domestic and foreign policies. Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime reclaims the study of ideology as an unavoidable component of the tools we use to render the world intelligible and represents a significant contribution to the scholarly debate on the interaction between ideas and policy decisions. By placing the current Russian regime into a broader context of different strains of strategic culture, ideological interest groups, and intellectual history, this book gives readers key insights into how the Russo-Ukrainian War became possible and the role ideology played in enabling it"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Laruelle, Marlène. Ideology and meaning-making under the Putin regime Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2025 9781503641600
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