https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Putin-Patriotism-and-Political-Apathy https://booksandideas.net/Putin-Patriotism-and-Political-Apathy 2015-10-19T07:00:00Z text/html en Karine Clément Politics Russia dissidence Institut français ideology Public Books patriotism Poutine <p>How can we explain Vladimir Putin's extraordinary levels of popularity in Russia? Beyond accusations of poll manipulation and propaganda, Carine Clément traces the history and characteristics of “Putinism”, a system of ideas and practices feeding on patriotism and a general sense of political apathy throughout Russia.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Reading-with-Dissidents https://booksandideas.net/Reading-with-Dissidents 2014-12-15T11:15:00Z text/html en Weronika Parfianowicz-Vertun Politics History communism dissidence <p>In the 1970s and 1980s, Polish, Hungarian and Czechoslovakian dissidents used illegal, home-made books and papers to voice their anti-Communist protests. Weronika Parfianowicz-Vertun examines the history and relevance of this phenomenon, which remains little known outside ex-Sovietic countries.<span class="spip_note_ref"> [<a href="#nb1" class="spip_note" rel="appendix" title="Research for this project is being funded by the Polish National Science (…)" id="nh1">1</a>]</span></p>