Intellectual Origins of Putinism as Russia’s State Ideology (original) (raw)

The article is an investigation into the historical process of nation building in Russia and its impact on shaping state ideology during the Putin era. To this respect, I am planning to argue for a reassessment of current understandings of Russia’s political regime and ideology, by abandoning the simplistic view of an authoritarian regime dominated by a strong man figure using a simulacrum of ideology to legitimate his position and political decisions, and to place Putinism into perspective, as an organic development of a mainly pre-Soviet era Russian ideological and collective identity discourse.