Russia's Post-Soviet Ideological Terrain: Zvyagintsev's<i>Leviathan</i>and Debates on Authority, Agency, and Authenticity
Journal: Slavic Review
Year: 2018

Much of the literature on post-Soviet ideology interprets ideology as the content of state-sponsored doctrines or measures it via persistent strands in public opinion. This paper relies on a different notion: we think of societal and state perspectives as engaged with each other in a contentious dialogue that is constitutive of ideology. With this dialogic conception of ideology, this paper provides a map of Russia's ideological terrain through an analysis of the debates surrounding Andrey Zvyag