Putin's Reign, Like Russia’s Final Czar's, May End Following his Ukrainian Misadventure (original) (raw)

The Unpopulist, 2022

Abstract

Since being elected president of Russia, Vladimir Putin has adopted many of the trappings and symbols of the former Russian czars, while his neo-czarist “vertical of power” has concentrated Russia’s political and police powers in his own autocratic hands. Indeed, Putin may have succeeded in becoming the new czar of all the Russians—in the sense, however, of being a new Nicholas II, the ruler who was Russia’s last real czar and who was deposed in 1917 during World War I. One imagines Nicholas II is not the role model Putin sought to emulate. Regardless, the two autocrats’ strategic choices on the European geopolitical map may have entangled their destinies. The current crisis in Ukraine may be Putin’s 1917. Two Possible Futures for Putin, Russia and Ukraine

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