Article: Swaddled Nation: Modern Mother Russia and a Psychohistorical Reassessment of Stalin

Will we soon be using the phrase "Putinism"? After all, if we take a quick look at the headlines, totalitarian rule in Russia under Vladimir Putin may be reemerging. Conventional social scientists in the West see Putin's duty clearly laid out in front of him: take the earth's largest nation, make its people and goals cohesive, and drive it toward democracy. But is that really the goal? Perhaps the reason a smooth path toward a free, democratic Russia seems elusive is the long held psychogenic mode in which democracy and personal freewill is a foreign concept with no bearing on the Russian experience. Under his KGB-trained gaze, Putin recognizes the deep, psychological longings of his ...

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