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The episode discusses the Kremlin's efforts to create a custom-engineered ideology under Putin's regime.

Or, 'Team Russia and the Undead Ideology Project' Can you create an ideology that is custom-engineered, poll-driven, focus grouped, workshopped and marketed? The Presidential Administration's Alexander Kharichev is certainly trying, suggesting the Kremlin's concerns about the future. I also discuss Marlene Laruelle's excellent book Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime (Stanford UP 2025), and the link to Jeremy Morris's comments on it is here. The podcast's corporate p...

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Host: Mark Galeotti

Topics covered

• Putinism
• ideology
• Kremlin
• politics
• Russia
• government

Keywords

• Putin
• ideology
• Kremlin
• politics
• Russia
• Marlene Laruelle
• Alexander Kharichev
• Jeremy Morris

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stanford UP

Books & works: Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime

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