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Subject: Publ.: Identities and Politics under Putin (Casula/Perovic, eds)
"Identities and Politics During the Putin Presidency: The Foundations of
Russia's Stability" (paperback)
Edited by Philipp Casula and Jeronim Perovic in collaboration with Ivo
Mijnssen. With a foreword by Heiko Haumann
= Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol. 92
(www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html )
Stuttgart/Hannover: ibidem-Verlag, November 2009. EUR39.90
392 pp., ISBN-10: 3838200152, ISBN-13: 978-3838200156
How could an undemocratic regime manage to stabilise Russia? What is Putin’s
success formula? What are the symbolic and discursive underpinnings of
Russia’s new stability? Many outside observers of Russia regarded the
authoritarian tendencies during the Putin presidency as a retreat from, or
even the end of, democratisation. Rather than attempting to explain why
Russia did not follow the trajectory of democratic transformation, this book
aims to attain an understanding of the stabilisation process during Putin’s
tenure as president. Proceeding from the assumption that the stability
created under Putin is multi-layered, the authors attempt to uncover the
underpinnings of the new equilibrium, inquiring especially about the changes
and fixations that occurred in the discourses on political and national
identity. In doing so, the authors analyse the trajectories of the past
years from the traditional perspective of transitology as well as through
the
lens of post-structuralist discourse theory. The two approaches are seen as
complementary, with the latter focusing less on the end point of transition
than on the nature of the mechanisms that stabilise the current regime. The
book therefore focuses on how nationalism became an increasingly important
tool in political discourse and how it affected political identity.
“Sovereign democracy” is seen by many contributors as the most explicit
manifestation of a newfound post-Soviet identity drawing on nationalist
ideas, while simultaneously appeasing most sectors of the Russian political
spectrum.
Contents:
Foreword by H. Haumann 17
Introduction
The Stabilisation of Russia during the Putin Presidency: Critical
Reflections
J. Perovic, P. Casula 19
I Discourses in Russian Politics
Populism in Context
D. Howarth 31
Dislocation in Context
A. Norval, I. Mijnssen 39
Political and National Identity in Russia: Developments in Russian Political
Thought in the 1990s
P. Casula 47
II Regime Type and National Identity
What Kind of Political Regime Does Russia Have?
H.-H. Schröder 67
The Specific Features and Future of Post-Soviet Transitions
A. Ryabov 94
Russian Political Discourse in the 1990s: Crisis of Identity and Conflicting
Pluralism of Ideas
O. Malinova 107
Russian “Sovereign Democracy”: A Powerful Ideological Discourse in a
Quasi-Authoritarian Regime
N. Hayoz 125
Varieties of Post-Communist Nationalisms in Eastern Europe
K. Müller, A. Pickel 148
Russian Nationalism and Xenophobia
L. Gudkov 171
III Sovereign Democracy and its Competitors
Sovereign Democracy as a Discourse of Russian Identity
V. Hudson 189
Sovereignty and Democracy in Contemporary Russia: A Modern Subject Faces the
Post-Modern World
V. Morozov 211
Ordering Chaos: Russian Neo-Fascist Articulation
Z. Bowden 248
IV Symbols and the Past
The Symbolic Politics of the Putin Administration
I. Kurilla 269
An Old Myth for a New Society
I. Mijnssen 284
Russia in Plural: (Re)Constructing Otherness, (De)Constructing Power
A. Makarychev 306
Rethinking Identification With the Hegemonic Discourse of a “Strong Russia”
Through Laclau and Mouffe
M. Müller 327
V Outside Perspectives
The View from Elsewhere: Western Mediation of Potential Sources of Russian
Dislocation in the 1990s
F. Macgilchrist 348
“Europe” and “Russia” in Ukraine’s Narratives on National Identity:
Historical and Cultural Myths
S. Kobzar 369
Constructing or Deconstructing Democracy? The Geopolitical Context of
Ukraine’s Democratic Choice
S. Glebov 390
The editors:
Philipp Casula studied political sociology at the Free University of Berlin
and is currently a research fellow and doctoral candidate at the University
of Basel. Among his latest publications are contributions to the edited
volumes Revolutions: Reframed, Revisited, Revised (Peter Lang 2007) and
Nationalism and Democracy (Routledge 2009). Dr. Jeronim Perovic studied
history, political science and Russian literature at the University of
Zurich. He is currently a senior researcher with the Institute of History at
the University of Basel and visiting scholar at the Center for Security
Studies at the ETH Zurich. He is a co-editor of Energy and the
Transformation of International Relations (OUP 2009), Russian Energy Power
(Routledge 2009) and Russian Business Power (Routledge 2009) as well as the
author of, among other studies, Die Regionen Russlands als neue politische
Kraft (Peter Lang 2001).
The author of the foreword:
Dr. Heiko Haumann is Professor of East European and Contemporary History at
the University of Basel.
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