ERS13 The Politics of the Putinism, 2–5 ECTS – Dept. of Political Science and International Relations

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ERS13 The Politics of the Putinism 2–5 ECTS

Organised by

International Relations/ISSS

Person in charge

Dr. Sergei Prozorov, University of Helsinki

Belongs to following study modules

Learning outcomes

To analyze the reign of Vladimir Putin as President and Prime-Minister as a distinct historico-political phenomenon and to trace its assent to hegemony in Russian politics from the late 1990s onwards.

The course focuses on Putinism as a distinct phenomenon of political ideology and practice. We shall reconstitute the basic features of Putinism as an ideological discourse and a governmental rationality, tracing its genesis in the socioeconomic reforms of the 1990s, its assent to the hegemonic status in Russian politics during the current decade and its perpetuation in the aftermath of Putin’s two presidential terms. We shall particularly focus on the relation between the principles of bureaucracy, oligarchy and democracy at different stages of Putin’s rule, probing the possibilities of the development of Putinism as a paradigm of rule in either the more authoritarian or liberal-democratic direction.