...Jussi Lassila What can be said about the nature of support for Putin’s policies toward Ukraine in Russia’s bureaucracy? Despite the extensive repression making assessment of the actual nature of the support challenging especially after the 2022 invasion, the instrumental support related to material...

... and the place that companies occupy within it. email: [email protected] © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 Russia authoritarian regime welfare corporate social responsibility business social policy nonprofit organizations legitimation An intriguing...

...Sanshiro Hosaka Drawing on the concept of strategic narrative, this article explores how Russia’s issue narratives on the Ukraine events were reproduced by local narrative agents. I conducted content analysis of texts published in Japan from 2014 through 2019, and regression analysis to examine...

...Olga Solovyeva; Ilya Yablokov This study explores techno-populism in Russia as the interweaving of technocratic and populist discourses. Analyzing eight Presidential Addresses to the Federal Assembly (between 2012 and 2020), it maps five themes through which techno-populist discourse manifests...

..., regime-loyal generations. This article analyzes the first official document of the wartime period that deals with questions of Russia’s ideology—the educational curriculum guidance packet titled “Foundations of Russian Statehood” (FORS) and promoted by the Presidential Administration for use in Russian...

... are credited. media memory TikTok Stalin Russia social media USSR Stalin’s era in the history of the USSR remains one of the region’s darkest periods. Long and broad persecution campaigns, the strengthening of imperialist sentiments and aspirations, and terror against various domestic...

... placing visitor agency and greater dialogue at the heart of museum experiences requires greater research on visitor perceptions, attitudes, and interpretations of those experiences. The article argues for the utility of future research into the consumption of the commodified past in Russia and beyond...

... the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. memory politics Murmansk region war memorials World War II Russia In post-Soviet Russia, steering...

...Marina Khmelnitskaya; Jo Zhou This article addresses the puzzle of the politics of social policy formation by two post-communist authoritarian regimes in China and Russia. It argues that two interrelated dimensions—which we term the pillars of power and policy—shape social policymaking and change...

...Alexey Miller; Alexander Kamentsev In modern Russia, the memory of the Cossacks is perpetuated in monuments and museum exhibitions; their culture and history are described in school textbooks, including specialized ones; some regions open special Cossack classes; and hundreds of social media groups...

... digital media Russia Nationalism scholarship acknowledges the growing role of symbolic politics and mundane practices, including everyday online communication, in studying contemporary nationalism in all its forms. It has shown how everyday nationalism becomes more important for community...

...Kathryn Hendley The study represents a first effort to explore societal sources of support for judicial independence under authoritarianism. Contemporary Russia, which is characterized by legal dualism, under which judges pay close attention to the governing law when resolving mundane cases...

... as mostly stable, overlooking the consequences of the “environment” in which the interaction takes place as well as that of intra-party dynamics. Finally, national-level explanations overlook the growing geographic asymmetry of a federal state (at least nominally) like Russia and the specific institutional...

...Vladimir Gel′man; Anastassia Obydenkova According to elite and mass surveys, the late-Soviet sociopolitical and economic order was largely perceived as the only viable alternative to domestic political and economic status quo in Russia before 2022. Political elites invested significant efforts...

...Ekaterina Paustyan This article aims to explain the tenure of incumbent governors in Russia studying what conditions have accounted for their reappointment and dismissal in the period of 2008–12. Qualitative comparative analysis of 32 cases reveals that the ability of incumbent governors to deliver...

... of the University of California 2022 memory politics Russia USSR Soviet repressions Great Patriotic War In Russia, the Great Patriotic War (GPW) is commonly discussed as a fair and victorious war in which the Soviets stood against the great evil of Nazism and prevailed. This triumphant view...

... to effective democratic openings in such regions. Using a case study method, it focuses on Armenia’s Velvet Revolution in 2018, which successfully challenged the previously-entrenched authoritarian regime in the country. This was particularly significant as it occurred in Russia’s security orbit. Armenia has...

...Ivan Fomin; Olga Nadskakuła-Kaczmarczyk This article seeks to provide a better understanding of the dynamics of the nationwide protests that appeared in Russia as a result of the large-scale political campaigns of 2017–18. On the basis of an original database devoted to six protests, organized...

... the cases, highlighting variation among digital authoritarians’ governance strategies. We conclude that Russia’s Internet governance model is less comprehensive and consistent than China’s, but its components may be more easily exported to other political systems. We then consider whether recent changes...

...Vanessa Ruget; Burul Usmanalieva This article explores how Kyrgyz labor migrants in Russia view their host country’s government and its influence in Kyrgyzstan, including through the Eurasian Economic Union. Results suggest that migrants have nuanced, pragmatic pro-Russian views. They understand...