Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia Budraitskis Ilya
How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture?Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the…
Specifikacia Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia Budraitskis Ilya
How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture?Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postmodern nationalism that now prevails in Russia, and describes the post-Soviet evolution of its left. He incisively describes the twists and contradictions of the Kremlin's geopolitical fantasies, which blend up-to-date references to information wars with nostalgic celebrations of the tsars of Muscovy. Despite the revival of aggressive Cold War rhetoric, he argues, the Putin regime takes its bearings not from any Soviet inheritance, but from reactionary thinkers such as the White migr Ivan Ilyin.Budraitskis makes an invaluable contribution by reconstructing the forgotten history of the USSR's dissident left, mapping an entire