Situating Putin

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This is a rather old-fashioned book of essays. Its sole objective is to describe the character of Putin's political order as accurately as possible, and to spell out why and how Putinism is worrisome. The main essay, while providing a summary account of how Putin came to power and consolidated his position as Russia's virtual dictator, evaluates Putinism in terms of the main models or metaphors that have been summoned up to explain it: gangsterism, patrimonialism, reversion to Communism or to “Communist totalitarianism,” oil-centeredness, fascism, and repressive modernization. In varying degrees and different ways it finds some merit in most of those comparisons but concludes that Putinism, in essence, is about as close to fascist as a system can be without being expressly fascist. In this respect Putinism closely resembles the repressive modernizing regimes that took shape in countries like Indonesia, the Philippines, Iran, Argentina, and Brazil during the Cold War period. Its fascist pulse need not but could turn dangerous--a problem mainly for western Europe, which has had trouble coming to terms with the situation.

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William Sweet
The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists

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increase had his authentic voice: “New regional and local wars are being sparked before our very eyes. We see new areas of instability and deliberately managed chaos. There are attempts to provoke such conflicts in the immediate vicinity of the borders of Russia and our allies,” he said. “Under these circumstances, Russia cannot rely on diplomatic and economic methods alone
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The 2011 parliamentary election, despite United Russia’s unprecedented poor showing, was widely seen as rigged in its favor. Putin’s abrupt decision, announced without much ceremony months before, that he would reassume the presidency for another six years, left a general impression that all talk of Medvedev’s supposed reformism had been pure sham. Then too there was the bad taste left by the second Khodorkovsky trial, which had a much sharper public impact than the first.
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” Put somewhat benignly, “This is a market-compatible form of taking over strategic assets throughout the regions. The goal is to stop the faulty mechanisms of tax evasion. Pensions for civil servants throughout the regions should be paid out on time [after all].” Less benignly, “It works like a vacuum cleaner that sucks up the assets of companies into a structure which soon turns into a state corporation. Those assets are then passed on to the professional leaders. The measures applied are both voluntary and mandatory. People understand… .”
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