Putin’s ‘Besieged Fortress’ and Its Ideological Arms
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2015

The main ideological ‘tenets’ of Putins third term are state nationalism based on Russia’s greatness and its ‘specialpath’; an aggressive anti-Western and anti-liberal stance; quasi-traditionalism; the infallibility of the state and Putin as a leader of no alternative; and intolerance toward autonomous activism, civic or political. The annexation of Crimea as historically and culturally ‘our’ land and Putin’s determination to support ‘ours’ in eastern and southeastern Ukraine inevitably boosts t