Is Russia fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East West
Journal: IRIS - Institutional Research Information System (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli)
Year: 2021

In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of "fascism" has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism, supposedly evidenced by Russia's annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism, attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right movements in Europe. But at the same time Russia has branded itself as the world's preeminent antifascist power because of its sacrifice