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Power and Legitimacy –
Challenges from Russia
Edited by
Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund and
Elena Namli
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Power and Legitimacy Challenges
from Russia
This book sheds new light on the continuing debate within political thought
as to what constitutes power, and what distinguishes legitimate from illegiti-
matepower.ItdoessobyconsideringtheexperienceofRussia,apolitywhere
experiences of the legitimacyof power and the collapse of power offer a con-
trast to Western experienceson which most politicaltheory,formulated in the
West, is based. Thebook considers powerin a range of contexts – philosophy
and discourse; the rule of law and its importance for economic development;
the use of culture and religion as means to legitimate power; and liberalism
and the reasons for its weakness in Russia. The book concludes by arguing
that the Russian experience provides a useful lens through which ideas of
power and legitimacy can be re-evaluated and re-interpreted, and through
which the idea of ‘the West’ as the ideal model can be questioned.
Per-Arne Bodin is Professor of Slavic Languages at Stockholm University,
Sweden.
Stefan Hedlund is Professor of Russian Studies at Uppsala University,
Sweden.
Elena Namli is Professor of Ethics at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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1 Liberal Nationalism in Central 8 The Development of Capitalism
Europe in Russia
Stefan Auer Simon Clarke
2 Civil–Military Relations in 9 Russian Television Today
Primetime drama and comedy
Russia and Eastern Europe
David MacFadyen
David J. Betz
10 The Rebuilding of Greater
3 The Extreme Natinoalist Threat
Russia
in Russia Putin’s Foreign Policy towards
The growing influence ofWestern
the CIS countries
Rightist ideas
Bertil Nygren
Thomas Parland
11 A Russian Factory Enters the
4 Economic Development in Market Economy
Tatarstan Claudio Morrison
Global markets and a Russian
region 12 Democracy Building and
Leo McCann Civil Society in Post-Soviet
Armenia
5 AdaptingtoRussia’sNewLabour Armine Ishkanian
Market
Gender and employment strategy 13 Nato–Russia Relations in the
Edited by Sarah Ashwin Twenty-First Century
Aurel Braun
6 Building Democracy and Civil
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Essays in honourof Edmund A failed exercise in defence
Mokrzycki decision making
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7 TheTelengitsofSouthernSiberia 15 The Multilateral Dimension in
Landscape, religion and Russian Foreign Policy
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Agniezka Halemba and Stina Torjesen
16 Russian Nationalism and the 25 The Heritage of Soviet Oriental
National Reassertion of Russia Studies
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Stephen Conermann
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An introduction 26 Religion and Language in
Frederik Coene Post-Soviet Russia
Brian P. Bennett
18 Radical Islam in the Former
Soviet Union 27 Jewish Women Writers in the
Edited by Galina M. Soviet Union
Yemelianova Rina Lapidus
19 Russia’s European Agenda and
28 Chinese Migrants in Russia,
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20 Regional Development in Central
and Eastern Europe 29 Poland’s EU Accession
Developmentprocessesandpolicy
Sergiusz Trzeciak
challenges
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30 The Russian Armed Forces
John Bachtler and Maciej
in Transition
Sme˛tkowski
Economic, geopolitical and
institutional uncertainties
21 Russia and Europe
Edited by Roger N. McDermott,
Reaching agreements, digging
Bertil Nygren and Carolina
trenches
Vendil Pallin
KjellEngelbrektandBertilNgren
22 Russia’s Skinheads 31 The Religious Factor in Russia’s
Exploring and rethinking Foreign Policy
subcultural lives Alicja Curanovic´
Hilary Pilkington, Elena
Omel’chenko and Abel Polese 32 Postcommunist Film – Russia,
Eastern Europe and World
23 The Colour Revolutions in the Culture
Former Soviet Republics Moving images of
Successes and failures postcommunism
Edited by Donnacha Ó Beacháin Edited by Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord
and Abel Polese Kristensen
24 Russian Mass Media and
33 Russian Multinationals
Changing Values
From regional supremacy to
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34 Russian Anthropology After the 38 EU–Russian Border Security
Collapse of Communism Challenges, (mis)perceptions and
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Vakhtin
39 Power and Legitimacy –
35 The Post-Soviet Russian
Challenges from Russia
Orthodox Church
Edited by Per-Arne Bodin,
Politics,cultureandGreaterRussia
Stefan Hedlund and Elena
Katja Richters
Namli
36 Lenin’s Terror
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The ideological origins of early
Russia
Soviet state violence
Edited by Oleh Protsyk and
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Challenges from Russia
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Contents
List of contributors ix
Introduction 1
PER-ARNEBODIN,STEFANHEDLUNDANDELENANAMLI
1 Dimensions of Russia: developments after the USSR 8
KLAUSVONBEYME
2 Never show weakness: how faking autocracy legitimates
Putin’s hold on power 28
STEPHENHOLMES
3 Legitimizing the Russian executive: identity, technocracy, and
performance 46
EUGENEHUSKEY
4 Legitimacy of power and security of property 59
STEFANHEDLUND
5 Capitalism and Russian democracy 75
BORISKAPUSTIN
6 Democracy in Russia: problems of legitimacy 102
BORISV.MEZHUEV
7 Power and society in Russia: avalue approach to legitimacy 118
RUBENAPRESSYAN
8 Powerful rationalityor rationality of power?: reflections on
Russian scepticism towards human rights 133
ELENANAMLI
9 The ‘cultural/civilizational turn’ in post-Soviet identity building 152
JUTTASCHERRER
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10 Conservative political romanticism in post-Soviet Russia 169
ANDREYMEDUSHEVSKY
11 ‘Bez stali i leni’: Aesopian language and legitimacy 188
IRINASANDOMIRSKAIA
12 Medvedev’s new media gambit: the language of power in
140 characters or less 199
MICHAELS.GORHAM
13 Legitimacy and symphony: on the relationship between state
and Church in post-Soviet Russia 220
PER-ARNEBODIN
Concluding remarks 235
PER-ARNEBODIN,STEFANHEDLUNDANDELENANAMLI
Index 239
Contributors
Ruben Apressyan is Professor and Head of the Department of Ethics at the
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of
several books and numerous articles on the historyof ethics, origination of
morality, nature of morality, normative and applied ethics, philosophical
issues of war, violence and non-violence, civil society and love.
Klaus von Beyme is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University
of Heidelberg. After studying Political Science, Sociology, History and
History of Art in Heidelberg, Munich, Paris, Moscow and at Harvard
University, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of
Tübingen 1967–73, before moving to Heidelberg. His major research fields
are Comparative Politics and Political Theory.
Per-Arne Bodin is Professor of Slavic Languages at the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, Stockholm University. He has written on the
relationship between Russian culture and Russian Orthodox tradition.
His most recent book is Language, Canonization and Holy Foolishness:
Studies in Post-Soviet Russian Culture and the Orthodox Tradition (Acta
Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2009).
Michael S. Gorham is Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the Depart-
ment of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida. He
has published articles on the intersection of language, literature and poli-
tics in Russia and a book titled Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language
Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia (Northern Illinois
UniversityPress,2003).Hiscurrentresearchexploresrelatedissuesinlate-and
post-SovietRussia.
Stefan Hedlund is Professor of Soviet and East European Studies at Uppsala
University. Hehas publishedonSoviet and Russian economic development,
and on the influence of historyon current affairs. His main research interest
lies in the field of institutional theory and institutional change. His recent
publicationsincludeInvisible Hands,Russian Experience and SocialScience:
Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure (Cambridge University
Press, 2011).
StephenHolmes isWalterE.MeyerProfessorofLawatNewYorkUniversity
SchoolofLaw.Heistheauthorofnumerousbooksandarticlesinpolitical
