RT Book
T1 The red mirror: Putin's leadership and Russia's insecure identity
A1 Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz 1973-
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1737207109
AB "This book inquires into Vladimir Putin's leadership strategy and relies on social identity theory to explain Putin's success as a leader. The author argues that Russia's second president has been successful in promoting his image as an embodiment of the shared national identity of the Russian citizens. He has articulated the shared collective perspective and has built a social consensus by tapping into powerful group emotions of shame and humiliation derived from the painful experience of the transition in the 1990s. He was able to overturn these emotions into pride and patriotism by activating two central pillars of the Soviet collective identity: a sense of exceptionalism that the Soviet regime promoted to consolidate the Soviet nation, and a sense of a foreign threat to the state and its people that also was foundational for the Soviet Union. Putin's assertive foreign policy decisions, culminating in the annexation of Crimea, appeared to have secured, in the eyes of the Russian citizens, their insecure national identity. The top-down leadership and bottom-up collective identity-driven processes coalesced to produce a newly revanchist Russia, with its current leader perceived by many citizens to be irreplaceable. Politics of national identity in Russia are promoted through a well-coordinated media machine that works to focus citizens' attention on Putin's foreign policy and on Russia's international standing. Public fears are played out against the backdrop of Soviet legacies of national exceptionalism and the politics of victimhood associated with the 1990s to conjure a sense of collective dignity, self-righteousness, and national strength to keep the present political system intact."--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-232. - Register
CN DK510.766.P87
SN 9780197502945
SN 9780197502938
K1 Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich : 1952-
K1 Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich : 1952- : Public opinion
K1 Political leadership : Russia (Federation)
K1 Nationalism : Russia (Federation)
K1 National characteristics, Russian
K1 Russia (Federation) : Politics and government : 1991-
K1 Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovič : 1952- : Russland : Soziale Identität : Nationalbewusstsein