Russia's New Emerging State Ideology

About this event

The Russian Presidential Administration has recently launched several initiatives that confirm new steps toward the formalization of a more rigid ideology for the regime and the population, with attempts of securing stronger indoctrination of the younger generation and a new political language more directly inspired by the radical imperialist fringes. Join us to discuss the risks and challenges of this new strategy, and who are the figures and bureaucratic logics behind it.

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Speakers

Ilya Budraitskis is a political and social theorist, previously based in Moscow. He writes regularly for e-flux journal, openDemocracy, Republic.ru, Colta.ru and other outlets, and teaches at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, High School of Economics and the Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow. His research interests include political and social theory, cultural critique, memory studies and intellectual history. His academic publications in recent years appeared in various journals in English (South Atlantic Quarterly, Radical Philosophy) and in Russian (Stasis, Logos, Sociology of Power etc). His book Dissidents among Dissidents was awarded the Andrey Belyi prize in 2017. His most recent book We All Live in the World Huntington Invented (2020) treats modern Russian conservatism. The essay collection Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia was published by Verso in 2022. Budraitskis is a member of the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine and of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Sakharov Center.

Mikhail Suslov is Assistant Professor of Russian History and Politics at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His most recent publication is Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia (Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2020).

Ivan Fomin received his Candidate of Sciences degree (PhD) in political science from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and contributed to a series of research projects at MGIMO University and INION RAN Center for Advanced Methods. Ivan’s work is mostly focused on the studies of illiberal and nationalist discourses in Russian and post-socialist politics. He is interested in applying methods of multimodal discourse analysis and social semiotics in the studies of political legitimation and contestation. He has been working on discourses of the Russian elite and opposition as well as on the Russian protest movements.

Moderator

Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. She works on political, social, and cultural changes in the post-Soviet space. Marlene’s research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia, nationhood construction in Central Asia, as well as the development of Russia’s Arctic regions.