01918 a2200325 4500 20250526161933.0 250430042024GB 12 eng 9781032153858 BB Taylor & Francis GBP 145.00 BB 01 eng JPF thema GTM thema QDTS thema 1QBDR bisac JPF bic GTB bic HPS bic 1DVU bisac SOC008000 bisac SOC024000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 320.50947 bisac Mikhail Suslov 945 Putinism – Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology 1 Oxford Routledge 20240223 286 p A key question for the contemporary world: What is Putin’s ideology? This book analyses this ideology, which it terms “Putinism”. It examines a range of factors that feed into the ideology – 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’s 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’s failure to resolve problems of global injustice and inequality. 10594 10594