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Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West Kindle Edition
There is no question that tensions between Russia and American are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions. Much of the blame for Russia's recent hostility towards the West has fallen on steely-eyed President Vladimir Putin and Americans have begun to wonder if they are witnessing the rebirth of Cold War-style dictatorship.
Not so fast, argues veteran historian Walter Laqueur.
For two decades, Laqueur has been ahead of the curve, predicting events in post-Soviet Russia with uncanny accuracy. In Putinism, he deftly demonstrates how three long-standing pillars of Russian ideology: a strong belief in the Orthodox Church, a sense of Eurasian "manifest destiny" and a fear of foreign enemies, continue to exert a powerful influence on the Russian populous. In fact, today's Russians have more in common with their counterparts from 1904 than 1954 and Putin is much more a servant of his people than we might think.
Topical and provocative, Putinism contains much more than historical analysis. Looking to the future, Laqueur explains how America's tendency to see Russia as a Cold War relic is dangerous and premature. As the situation in Ukraine has already demonstrated, Russia can and will challenge the West and it is in our best interest to figure out exactly who it is we are facing—and what they want—before it is too late.
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherThomas Dunne Books
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Publication dateJune 30, 2015
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File size757 KB
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“An aptly timed and much needed look at the mercurial master of the Kremlin” ―Peter Baker, New York Times
“An erudite and unsettling but convincing argument that the new Russia is a dictatorship 'approved by the majority as long as the going is good,' and if Putin were to vanish today, his successor would make few changes.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Laqueur is grimly convincing in lowering expectations that Russia will become genuinely democratic any time soon. This thorough examination of all aspects of modern Russian society and culture makes an excellent addition to recent literature on Putin-era Russia.” ―Publishers Weekly
“Big-picture analysis is always good, and Walter Laqueur, dean of American Russia watchers, excels at it.” ―James S. Denton, World Affairs
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- Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books (June 30, 2015)
- Publication date : June 30, 2015
- Language : English
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As is the case with previous books, Laqueur's focus is Russia right wing. In light of the events in the US presidential election, the mad concerns about the search for an organic Russian idea, drawing on dubious ethnographic research by Anna Akhmatova's son Lev Gumilev, these theorists might appear positively sane by comparison. In the end, there seems in a rejection of the west, an attempt to excise the multicultural character that is Russia.
This is a book, well worth reading, exposing the western reader to current intellectual thought in Russia. The chapter headings are so divorced from reality however, that the contents are frequently a source of surprise.
READ OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR AND I CAN TELL THAT HE KNOWS THE SUBJECT.
HE STATED WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOVIET PERIOD ENDING WITH THE GORBACHOV
ERA, THEN HE CONTINUES WITH THE NINETIES AFTER THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION
AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW RUSSIA WITH THE INCOMPETENT GOVERMENT OF BORIS YELTSIN,
THE COUNTRY WAS PILLAGED BY BOTH THE INTERNAL OLIGARCHS AND THE RAPACIOUS WESTERN
CAPITALISM REPRESENTED BY THE WORLD BANK AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, IN FACT
THE SHOCK THERAPY THAT WAS APPLIED ALMOST TORE APART THE NATION.
IN 1999 VLADIMIR PUTIN CAME TO POWER AND HE PUT RUSSIA BACK TO ITS FEET, AT LEAST THE
AUTHOR RECOGNIZES THAT.
THE REVIVAL OF THE NATIONALIST RIGHT AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ARE A VERY POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT
LIKE FOR EXAMPLE THE RESCUE OF THE PRE-SOVIET ERA AND THE REIVINDICATION OF THE WHITE CAUSE,
IN FACT IVAN ILYIN AND NIKOLAI BERDAYEV TWO OF MY FAVOURITE RUSSIAN WRITERS HAVE BEEN GIVEN
THEIR PROPER PLACE AND I APPLAUD VLADIMIR PUTIN FOR MAKE MANDATORY THE READING OF ILYIN BY
THE MEMBERS OF HIS GOVERNMENT, IN CONTRAST THE LIBERAL WEST DOMINATED BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
DENIGRATES ITS CULTURE, HISTORY AND RELIGION.
THE AUTHOR RECOGNIZES THE POPULARITY OF VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE FACT THAT LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
HAS BEEN A FAILURE IN RUSSIA , I WOULD ADD THAT LIBERAL DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN AN ABYSMAL FAILURE IN
LATIN AMERICA TOO.
UNFORTUNATELY THE AUTHOR PARROTS THE LIBERAL-NEOCONSERVATIVE LINE THAT RUSSIA UNDER PUTIN
HAS BECOME A PARANOID COUNTRY AND HAS DEVELOPED AN AGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY???, NOTHING COULD
BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH , IN FACT THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE , RUSSIA UNDER VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS DEVELOPED
GOOD RELATIONS WITH MOST OF THE WORLD WITH LEADERS OF DIFFERENT POLITICAL TENDENCIES , ALSO HE HAS
SOUGHT FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WEST BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE WESTERN LEADERS OF THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT ON
BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC ONLY WANT SUBSIRVIENCE, WHILE PUTIN'S RUSSIA HAS ADOPTED A MULTIPOLAR
AND REALISTIC FOREIGN POLICY THE US IS TRYING TO IMPOSE AN UTOPIAN LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC NEW WORLD ORDER
USING HOLLOW RHETORIC LIKE "HUMAN RIGHTS", "FREE MARKET", "CIVIL SOCIETY" AND "INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY".
AFTER THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION NATO HAS INCORPORATED WITHOUT REASON NOT ONLY THE FORMER
IRON CURTAIN COUNTRIES BUT ALSO THE BALTIC REPUBLICS; FROM BEING A DEFENSIVE PACT DURING THE COLD WAR
NATO HAS BECOME AN AGGRESIVE FORCE BY ITS MISGUIDED INTERVENTIONS IN THE BALKANS AND THE MIDDLE EAST
AND TO ADD INSULT TO THE INJURY THE SANCTIONS IMPOSED IN 2014 BECAUSE OF CRIMEA AND UKRAINE, IN
CRIMEA THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY VOTED IN FAVOUR OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND IT COULD NOT BE
OTHERWISE, SINCE THE LATE EIGHTEEN CENTURY FROM THE TIME OF CATHERINE THE GREAT CRIMEA HAS BEEN
PART OF RUSSIA, AS FOR UKRAINE THE CRISIS HAS BEEN CAUSED BY THE WESTERN MEDDLING BY PROMOTING
COLOUR REVOLUTIONS LIKE IN OTHER FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS IN ORDER TO INCORPORATE UKRAINE TO
THE SUPRAPLUTOCRATIC EUROPEAN UNION.
TO FINISH I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT AS OF NOW I CONSIDER VLADIMIR PUTIN THE BEST LEADER OF THE TWENTY FIRST
CENTURY A MODEL TO FOLLOW IN LATIN AMERICA.
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ただ、題名からプーチン中心に開設が進むと期待すると、間違う。宗教的要素を含めた近代の歴史の記述を終えた後で、現在の対欧州、対米外交についてのロシアのスタンスを丁寧に説明しているため、クリミア問題などから急展開しているロシアの外交姿勢など考える上で、大いに参考になった。