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Russia’s Niche Soft Power: Sources, Targets and Channels of Influence

(Ifri) This paper argues that Russia’s soft power should be understood as a niche soft power, microtargeting some specific audiences based on four particularisms: Russia’s history and culture; its Soviet legacy;…

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PONARS Eurasia Online Academy: Grassroots Nationalist Movements in Russia

Authored by Marlene Laruelle, “Grassroots Nationalism in Contemporary Russia,” is an educational video in a new series designed to provide succinct overviews of policy-relevant research and contemporary scholarship on Russia…

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How the Battle Over Collective Memory Will Define Russia’s Place in Europe

(Moscow Times) As the proverb goes, the past tells us above all about the present. The current memory wars between Russia, on the one hand, and Central European countries, led…

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New Book: Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West

In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of “fascism” has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin’s regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism,…

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A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

(Nationalities Papers) Abstract: A new wave of scholarship has made major advances in how we understand the politics of civilizational identity by drawing powerfully from conceptual tools developed over the years to…

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Accusing Russia of Fascism: Polemics around Russia’s Belonging to Europe

(Russia in Global Affairs) Abstract: With memory wars between Central and Eastern European states and Russia, the Second World War has become a useable past instrumentalized as a currency for legitimacy on…

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New Book: Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites

(Bloomsbury Academic) In examining the re-emergence of Russia’s White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in…

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Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

(Problems of Post-Communism) Abstract: The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge,…

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Laruelle: Russia is a provider of illiberal services to already existing actors, but does not create from scratch these illiberal actors

(SPLC) Hatewatch found an email address ending with a Russian domain name referenced across the source code of a network of three extreme, far-right websites that operate primarily in the U.S. Those three…

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Soviet Legacy as Soft Power: Chinese Reception of Russian Political and Cultural Influence

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Theories of soft power inspired by political scientist Joseph Nye often rely on two problematic assumptions: that soft power accrues only to countries with liberal systems,…

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