A key question for the contemporary world: What is Putin\u2019s ideology? This book analyses this ideology, which it terms \u201cPutinism\u201d. It examines a range of factors that feed into the ideology \u2013 conservative thought in Russia from the nineteenth century onwards, Russian and Soviet history and their memorialisation, Russian Orthodox religion and its political connections, a focus on traditional values, and Russia\u2019s sense of itself as a unique civilisation, different from the West and due a special, respected place in the world. The book highlights that although the resulting ideology lacks coherence and universalism comparable to that of Soviet-era Marxism-Leninism, it is nevertheless effective in aligning the population to the regime and is flexible and applicable in different circumstances. And that therefore it is not attached to Putin as a person, is likely to outlive him, and is potentially appealing elsewhere in the world outside Russia, especially to countries that feel belittled by the West and let down by the West\u2019s failure to resolve problems of global injustice and inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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1 Introduction: Understanding Putinism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Studying Putinism as an Ideology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n What Is Putinism\u2019s Ideological Identity?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n What Is the Meaning of Putinism?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Is There Popular Demand for Putinism?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 Political Thinkers of the Past in the Service of Putinism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Slavophiles<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anti-mimetism in the Teaching of Slavophiles<\/p>\n\n\n\n Populism in the Ideology of Slavophiles<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ivan Il\u2019in in Contemporary Russian Regime Ideology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Il\u2019in in Ideological Debates Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n Il\u2019in\u2019s Worldview and the Regime Ideology<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aleksandr Zinov\u2019ev<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zinov\u2019ev\u2019s Social Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anti-Westernism and the \u201cPhilosophy of War\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 Conservatism: Brief Engagement and Transformation of the Doctrine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Debates on Ideology in Post-Soviet Russia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Conservative Ideology in the 1990s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Merging Academic Studies of Conservatism and Politics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n URP and the Regime Ideology in the 2000s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Turn Away from Conservatism: After 2011\/12<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 Ideological Forms of National Iterations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Russian Nationalism or Nationalistic Discourses?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Civilisationism<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ideology of the Russian World<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diaspora as a Political Problem: Dealing with \u201cCompatriots\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conceptualisation of Diaspora Before 2014: The Russian World Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pan-Slavism<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5 Geo-political Ideologies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Greater Eurasia: Large and Central<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLarge space\u201d Thinking and Eurasian Projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greater Eurasia: Re-centring Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n