403. Marlene Laruelle - Has Vladimir Putin's Regime Embraced Fascism or is it Simply a Mafia Autocracy?

Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing
fascism, in its annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism,
attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right
movements in Europe. These tendencies have accelerated with the
full-scale war in Ukraine. So, does Russia now meet the diverse criteria
for historic fascism, or it’s off-shoot, German Nazism? Russia has
successfully muddied the waters, by branded itself as the world's
preeminent antifascist power because of its sacrifices during the Second
World War. But Russia continues to weaponize and debase that legacy of
WWII, embracing the same characteristics, policies, and tactics of the
axis powers.
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Marlène Laruelle is Research Professor of the Illiberalism studies
department at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
(IERES) at the George Washington University. Marlène is a French
historian, sociologist, and political scientist who specializes in
Eurasia and Europe, and is one of the most prolific and insightful
Western experts on issues related to Russian nationalism and memory
politics. Formerly, she was Senior Research Fellow at the Central Asia
and Caucasus Institute and Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson
International Centre for Scholars.
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LINKS:
http://marlene-laruelle.com/
https://elliott.gwu.edu/marlene-laruelle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marl%C3%A8ne_Laruelle
https://www.ifri.org/en/about/team/marlene-laruelle
https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about/people/marlene-laruelle
https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/publications-ifri/ouvrages-ifri/russia-fascist-unraveling-propaganda-east-and-west

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BOOKS:
Is Russia Fascist? Unravelling Propaganda East and West (2021)
Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (2021)
Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites (2020)
Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation (2018)
Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields
(2018)
Russian Eurasianism (2008)
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ARTICLES:
https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for-identifying-fascists
https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/review-marlene-laruelles-russia-fascist-unraveling-propaganda-east-and-west

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