Vladimir Putin's Manufacture of Civil Society: Between Hegemony and Domination.
Khakimov, Grigory.
2016
- This thesis applies Antonio Gramsci’s theoretical framework, analyzing how Vladimir Putin manufactures both state hegemony (top-down consent) and domination (coercion) over civil society. In terms of ideological hegemony, the paper investigates how Putin’s discourse of stability and statehood “manages” popular consent and legitimize Putin’s Caesarist leadership. Also I demonstrate how Putin produces ... read moreinstitutional hegemony as an informal political instrument by creating mediating and substitute institutions (the Public Chamber and the All-Russia People’s Front). While these civil organizations formally exist outside the state bureaucracy, they assist in the building of Putin’s authoritarian equilibrium between the state apparatus and society. In addition to hegemony, for the control over civil society, Putin applies domination by implementing coercive legislation, restricting the existing independent NGOs. In particular, the research analyzes the 2012 “foreign agents” law and the 2015 the “undesirable organizations” law. I show that as a result of implementation of this legislation, several independent NGOs have been targeted. I introduce three case studies of such NGOs as election monitoring Golos Association, historical and civil rights society Memorial, and human rights organization Agora.read less
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