A long view on the sense of Russian history that Vladimir Putin has inherited and draws from culturally. Looking at the roots of Russian anti-westernism, its response to Europe during the Enlightenment and Peter and Catherine the Great's modernizing projects. From Rousseau and the influence of the Romanitics through to Dostoevsky, Carl Schmitt's influence, and Ivan Illyin today.

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Sources:

Pankaj Misrha, Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom

Liah Greenfield, Nationalism: Five Roads to Moderntiy

David Lewis, Russia’s New Authoritarianism

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Snyder photo, Frauemacht, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

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