Table of Contents for Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime

Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime
Marlene Laruelle

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I THE REORDERING OF IDEOLOGY

1.Actors, Networks, and Structures

2.The Sedimentation of Ideology

PART II FROM LEARNING TO UNLEARNING THE WEST

3.The Painful Relationship to a Polysemic West

4.Byzantium: The Christian Europe

5.Spiritual Security: Statehood, Patriotism, History

6.Russia's Imperialness and the Fight for Ukraine

PART III THERMIDORIAN RUSSIA: The Counterrevolution

7.Civilization: Rejecting Western Universalism

8.Conservatism: Russia's Answer to Liberalism

9.Katechon: Reaction and Eschatology

PART IV SPEAKING TO THE WORLD: Russia's Geo-Imaginaries

10.Eurasia: The Transcontinental Space

11.The Russian World: From Messianism to Irredentism

12.Anticolonialism: Russia as a Global South Power

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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