Does the Putin regime have an ideology? This question has attracted renewed attention
since Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Some scholars claim that the war is …

Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current
Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the mind of Vladimir Putin …

ABSTRACT We apply Anatol Rapoport's typology of war to reconstruct how Russian
research communities explain war against Ukraine. We argue that the initial three …

It is tempting to imagine non-democratic regimes as monolithic. The picture of an Orwellian
machine managed by faceless bureaucrats, guarded by brutal security officers and oiled by …

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 …

This article examines the evolution of the Russian Orthodox Church's identities and political
alignments from the post-Soviet era to the present in three chronological phases. First, the …

This chapter emphasizes the copresence of, on the one hand, nationalism and
Westernization and, on the one other hand, Russification and Russophobia in today's war …

Abstract The Purpose of the Research. Whether the Russian war against Ukraine has been
ideologically motivated constitutes a part of a broader discussion of a revanchist turn in …

Zusammenfassung Ein wesentlicher Bestimmungsfaktor des Ausbruchs und der Eskalation
des russisch-ukrainischen Krieges 2014 bzw. 2022 waren antiukrainische Einstellungen in …

This chapter explores the persistent expectation among Western political circles and
analysts that the security predicament arising from Russia's conflict in Ukraine might find …