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Russia's new authoritarianism : Putin and the politics of order / David G. Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, David G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-.
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Political science.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Economic policy--1991-.
- Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions--1991-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh University Press 2020
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- David G. Lewis explores the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin. Using contemporary case studies - including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea and Russian policy in Syria - he critically examines Russia's new authoritarian political ideology.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- ONE / Authoritarianism, Ideology and Order
- Understanding Russian Authoritarianism
- Order, Smuta and the Russian State
- Russia as Weimar
- Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Order
- TWO / Carl Schmitt and Russian Conservatism
- Carl Schmitt in Moscow
- Normalising Schmitt
- THREE / Sovereignty and the Exception
- The Centrality of Sovereignty
- Sovereignty in International Affairs
- Domestic Sovereignty: Deciding on the Exception
- The Dual State
- FOUR / Democracy and the People
- Putinism and Democracy
- The Decline of Parliamentarianism
- Constructing a Majority
- FIVE / Defining the Enemy
- Russia and Its Enemies
- The End of Consensus
- SIX / Dualism, Exceptionality and the Rule of Law
- Law in Russia
- Conceptualising Dualism
- Politicised Justice
- Mechanisms of Exception
- The Exception Becomes the Norm
- SEVEN / The Crimean Exception
- Crimea: The Sovereign Decision
- Legality as Imperialism
- Order and Orientation
- EIGHT / Großraum Thinking in Russian Foreign Policy
- A World of Great Spaces
- Russia's Spatial Crisis
- The New Schmittians
- NINE / Apocalypse Delayed: Katechontic Thinking in Late Putinist Russia
- Russian Messianism
- Russia as Contemporary Katechon
- Katechontic Thinking and the Syrian Intervention
- CONCLUSION
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).
- Includes bibliography and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781474480611
- 1474480616
- 9781474454780
- 147445478X
- OCLC:
- 1150174920
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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