Biopower in Putin’s Russia
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

T here are different ways to characterize Vladimir Putin's rule.In- stitutionally, it is widely referred to as an authoritarian, dictatorial, repressive, and, in many cases, totalitarian regime of "personalist autocracy" (Frye 2022, 11).Ideologically, it can be categorized as a generally illiberal, conservative regime with a peculiar form of Russian populism.It is often referred to as nostalgic of the Soviet Union (Sharafutdinova 2020, 5).Its aggressiveness towards neighbors and disrespect for t