@article{922108,
      author = {Langdon, Kate C., and Tismaneanu, Vladimir,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/922108},
      title = {Putin's totalitarian democracy : ideology, myth, and  violence in the twenty-first century /},
      abstract = {This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological  factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putins  Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption  that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia. In  carefully examining the ideological underpinnings of  Putinism--its tsarist and Soviet elements, its intellectual  origins, its culturally reproductive nature, and its  imperialist foreign policy--the authors reveal that an  indoctrinating ideology and a willing population are  simultaneously the most crucial yet overlooked keys to  analyzing Putins totalitarian democracy. Because Putinism  is part of a global wave of extreme political movements,  the book also reaffirms the need to understand--but not  accept--how and why nation-states and masses turn to  nationalism, authoritarianism, or totalitarianism in modern  times. Kate C. Langdon is an Erasmus Mundus scholar. She  studied at Vassar College in New York and Charles  University in Prague. Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor in  the Department of Government and Politics at the University  of Maryland, College Park, and a Global Fellow at the  Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA.},
      recid = {922108},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}