Putinism

The Slow Rise of a Radical Right Regime in Russia

By: Marcel H. Van Herpen

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This book aims to provide an important insight into the essence of Putinism and the political system he has established in Russia over the past decade. Van Herpen compares in detail the many and often surprising parallels that exist between Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia and that of Weimar Germany and Mussolini's Italy indicating the presence of strong Fascist elements in the contemporary Russian Political system. However, this is tempered with elements of Bonapartism from Napoleon III's France and the populism of Italian politics under Berlusconi creating a hybrid system which has been termed 'Fascism-Lite' with a softer face than Mussolinian Fascism but still containing a hard core of ultra-nationalism, militarism and neo-imperialism. The author not only looks at Putin's regime in retrospect but also offers an insight into the future of the Russian political system as Russia's strong man begins his third term in office.

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'...van Herpen's book rises above many current Western publications about Russia.' Volodymyr Kravchenko, Forum for Ukrainian Studies

'A book which made quite a stir in academic circles.' Ukrainian Week

'This is a brief and incisive book, which helps you to understand the framework and methods behind Putin's Russia.' Goodreads

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List of Tables	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Defining Putin's system	p. 1
The purported lack of democratic ambition of the "Russian character"	p. 3
A counter-example of this "lack of interest"	p. 4
"Weimar Russia": The validity of a historical parallel	p. 6
Putinism is not a fixed, but a dynamic category	p. 6
Putin, Napoleon III, and Berlusconi	p. 7
Putinism: An unstable system of hybrid "fascism lite"?	p. 8
"Weimar Russia": The Validity of a Historical Parallel
Russia and the Weimar Republic: Does a "Weimar Parallel" Exist?	p. 13
Introduction: The danger of Praetorianism	p. 13
From optimism to pessimism	p. 14
The Weimar Parallel: The maturing process	p. 17
The Weimar Parallel: Its five clusters	p. 19
Geographical and demographic aspects	p. 21
Lost territories: The great amputation	p. 21
Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia: Two divided countries	p. 21
National minorities: A ticking time bomb?	p. 22
The "Weimar Parallel": Economic, Political, and Societal Aspects	p. 26
Three economic crises	p. 26
Simultaneity of problems	p. 29
Praetorianism and the emergence of mass democracy	p. 29
Extremist political parries	p. 30
The undermining role of old elites in Weimar and post-Soviet Russia	p. 34
The struggle for political symbols: The flag and the anthem	p. 36
The installation of authoritarian rule	p. 38
The proliferation of crime and political murder	p. 40
Overcrowded prisons	p. 43
Baby booms and angry young men	p. 44
Bribery and corruption	p. 45
An uncivil civil society: Lacking trust and social capital	p. 48
The "Weimar Parallel": Socio-Psychological Aspects	p. 55
Feelings of humiliation	p. 55
The "stab in the back" legend in Weimar	p. 56
The "stab in the back" legend in post-Soviet Russia	p. 57
Conspiracy theories: Combating internal and external foes	p. 58
Managing guilt: The unbearable burden	p. 60
Stalinist atrocities	p. 61
The Ukrainian Holodomor: A genocide?	p. 63
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the annexation of the Baltic states	p. 65
Assigning and refusing blame: Are there opposed moral settings?	p. 69
The Russian "commission to counteract attempts at falsifying history"	p. 70
An example of "de-falsification": Poland's role in World War II	p. 72
Establishing "historical truth" or fighting untruths?	p. 73
Post-Imperial Pain and the Making of a New National Myth: The "Weimar Parallel": Socio-Psychological Aspects (Continued)	p. 76
Post-imperial pain: Anger, pessimism, and mystical expectations of a great future	p. 76
Dreams of the past: The dangerous nostalgia	p. 78
From gloom to inflated visions of the future	p. 80
The end of Communism and Russia's search for a new national myth	p. 81
Grandiose imperialist visions: The world according to Igor Panarin	p. 82
Aleksandr Dugin's Russian fascism	p. 83
The imperialist dreams of Vladimir Zhirinovsky	p. 85
Anonymous Russian monarchists: Tsar Putin?	p. 87
Russian castration anxiety and Western fear mongers: Emmanuel Todd and George Friedman	p. 91
Xenophobia, racism, and ultra-nationalism: The neo-Nazi revival in Russia	p. 93
Conclusion	p. 96
The Specter of a Fascist Russia
What is Fascism?	p. 101
Introduction: Putin the macho man	p. 101
Russia: A "normal" authoritarian state?	p. 103
Russia: An "unconsolidated fascist state"?	p. 104
Fascism and the ideology of national rebirth	p. 106
Putin's crypto-imperialism	p. 106
Fascism: A "container concept"?	p. 109
Ur-Fascism?	p. 110
Fascism: A unique historical phenomenon or a universal concept?	p. 111
Fascism: Deflating of a concept	p. 113
Thin and thick methods: Formulating abstract definitions or building ideal types?	p. 114
Defining Fascism: The "Thin" Method	p. 116
The thin method: Roger Griffin's "fascist minimum"	p. 116
A critique of Roger Griffin's definition	p. 117
The three sources of the fascist imperialist drive	p. 119
The omnipresence of war in fascist ideology and praxis	p. 122
War as an event	p. 122
War as an attitude	p. 123
War as a source of recruitment	p. 124
War as a means	p. 125
War as an ideology	p. 125
Defining Fascism: The "Thick" Method	p. 127
The four dimensions of the ideal type	p. 127
A political party with young middle-class leaders and its own party militia	p. 127
A mythical political religion emphasizing virility and the leader principle	p. 129
Ultra-nationalism, racism, and the restoration of national greatness	p. 131
The symbiosis of party and state, corporatism, totalitarian control and an imperialist foreign policy	p. 133
Discussion	p. 135
Putinism and Fascism: The 11 Differences (Part I)	p. 137
The 11 differences: An introduction	p. 137
Taking power or receiving power? Putin's successful infiltration strategy	p. 138
A post-hoc role for a presidential political party	p. 139
The presidential party as a "centrist" party	p. 139
No party militias	p. 140
The Kremlin's official "anti-fascism"	p. 140
The absence of state sponsored racism	p. 143
The absence of totalitarianism	p. 145
The role of the Orthodox Church	p. 147
Putinism and Fascism: The 11 Differences (Part II)	p. 153
The Siloviki: A new power elite	p. 153
The Chekist legacy: A regime created by the secret police	p. 155
Recomposing the divided beast: Toward a re-emergence of the former KGB?	p. 158
The role of the Mafia	p. 160
Putin's Russia as a "Pluralist Western-style democracy"	p. 161
Are the 11 differences relevant?	p. 163
The "Putinist dynamic of change", 2000-2012	p. 166
Putinism, Bonapartism, and Berlusconism
Putinism and Bonapartism: The Ten Resemblances	p. 171
Introduction	p. 171
Putinism and Bonapartism: The ten resemblances	p. 171
Napoleon Ill's democratic facade	p. 172
Censorship and the suppression of the free press	p. 175
The relative independence of the state	p. 176
An outsider takes power	p. 176
Law and order and the secret police	p. 177
An ideology of national consensus	p. 179
Bonapartism: Neither racist nor totalitarian	p. 181
Religion in the service of the state	p. 183
National prestige and modernization	p. 184
The belligerent empire	p. 185
Discussion	p. 186
Putinism and Berlusconism	p. 189
Berlusconi and Putin: The friendship of two Botoxed politicians	p. 189
Putinism and Berlusconism: Some striking similarities	p. 192
Berlusconi and Mussolini	p. 193
Globalization and the ethos of personal enrichment	p. 195
Globalization and the Mafia	p. 198
Putinism: A Hybrid Mixture of Mussolinian Fascism, Bonapartism, and Berlusconism	p. 202
Putinism is a system of its own kind	p. 202
Putinism is a right-wing radical system	p. 203
The Putinist dynamic: Why we can expect a further radicalization of the regime	p. 205
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 256
Index	p. 265
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