The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of 'Democracy' in Russian Political Discourse Volume Four : The Demise of 'Democracy' after Putin's Return to Power

Williams, David Cratis/ Young, Marilyn J./ Launer, Michael K.

Academic Studies Press（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 638 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798897830367
• DDC分類 320.447

Full Description

In this volume we focus on the years following Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. This has been a more active period than his first two terms, including the annexation of Crimea and, ultimately, the invasion of Ukraine. Thus, this period may be characterized as the run-up to that war. The core issue discussed in this volume is Putin's redefinition of "democracy" as the foundation of society and government in the Russian Federation. Putin argues for a strong central government in which unity is characterized as the absence of dissent. In so doing, Putin seeks to recast Russian national identity, relying on a vision of Russia as the victim of Western aggression.

Contents

List of Photos

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Note to Readers

Preface

Introduction to Volume Four

Part One: Introduction and Overview

Expansion and Contraction of Argumentative Space for Dissent in Russia from

Gorbachev to the Present

Russian Democracy, the Russian State, and the Russian Nation: A Longitudinal

Argument Analysis of Culturally Targeted Arguments in Presidential Addresses in the Russian Federation

Rule of Law, Freedom, and Democracy: Domestic and International Building

Blocks of Contemporary Russian Political Ideology

Purity of Essence: Russian Exceptionalism and the Origins of Putin's Obsession

with Ukraine

The Lexicon of Democracy in Putin's Speeches

The Lexicon of Anti-Democracy in Putin's Speeches

Part Two: Case Studies

Motivational Structures and Argument Resonance: The Rhetoric of Political

Renovation and National Identity in Post-Soviet Russia

"Democracy" According to Putin: Explorations in Definitional Argument