Putin’s Russia as a fascist political system
| Autor: | Alexander J. Motyl |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Authoritarianism Development 050601 international relations 0506 political science Nationalism Politics Political system Political economy Law 050602 political science & public administration Dictator Ideology Sociology Deconstruction Cult media_common |
| Zdroj: | Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 49:25-36 |
| ISSN: | 1873-6920 0967-067X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.01.002 |
| Popis: | There is a broad consensus among students of contemporary Russia that the political system constructed by Vladimir Putin is authoritarian and that he plays a dominant role in it. By building and expanding on these two features and by engaging in a deconstruction and reconstruction of the concept of fascism, this article suggests that the Putin system may plausibly be termed fascist. Not being a type of group, disposition, politics, or ideology, fascism may be salvaged from the conceptual confusion that surrounds it by being conceived of as a type of authoritarian political system. Fascism may be defined as a popular fully authoritarian political system with a personalistic dictator and a cult of the leader—a definition that makes sense conceptually as well as empirically, with respect to Putin’s Russia and related fascist systems. |
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