Center for Security Studies

The Return of Ideology - Russia’s New Sense of Mission

The Return of Ideology - Russia’s New Sense of Mission

Autor(en): Jens Siegert
Herausgeber: Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Serie: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Ausgabe: 148
Seiten: 9-11
Verlag(e): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publikationsjahr: 2014

Since returning to the Kremlin, Putin and his regime have moved away from the informal 'social contract' of the 2000s, in which the state refrained from playing a role in shaping people’s lives towards promoting a neo-ideology - a crude mixture of a sense of threat from and resentment towards the foreign and the human, neo-religious bigotry and an anti-Western and anti-modernizing geopolitical world view. While this neo-ideology may secure the regime a few additional years in power, it is likely to lead the country into decline, as it is scaring off exactly those people-the young, (well-)educated, mobile and entrepreneurial - needed to modernize Russia.

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