https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB95738578060490250
Maxim Trudolyubov, The Tragedy of Property: Private Life, Ownership and the Russian State, Polity, 2018.
Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man: The Social Base of Politics, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963, 41.
Adam Przeworski et al., Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-being in the World 1950-1990, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Shleifer and Treisman, "A Normal Country: Russia After Communism."
Daniel Treisman, "Economic Development and Democracy: Predispositions and Triggers," Annual Review of Political Science 23.1 (2020): 241-57, quoted 255.
David Shearman and Joseph Wane Smith, The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy, Praeger, 2007.
27 Anthony Giddens, The Politics of Climate Change, Polity, 2009, 36.
5 The Public Sphere
Dan Healey, Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi, Bloomsbury, 2017; Alexander Sasha Kondakov, Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia, UCL, 2022.
Sirke Makinen, "Surkovian Narrative on the Future of Russia: Making Russia a World Leader," Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 27.2 (2011): 143-65.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/02/why-minsk-2-cannot -solve-ukraine-crisis
Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia, Faber & Faber, 2017.
See Maurizio Carbone, "Russia's Trojan Horse in Europe? Italy and the War in Georgia," Italian Politics 24 (2008): 135-51; Valerie Sperling, Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia, Oxford University Press, 2014.
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/figure-of-the-week-l-3-billion; Anton Shekhovtsov, ed. RT in Europe and Beyond: The Wannabe Elite of the Anti-Elites, Centre for Democratic Integrity, 2022.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2004/03/18/did-soros-final ly-exit-svyazinvest-a232281
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/george-soros -future-europe-and-russia-open-societies
Gregory Asmolov, "The Disconnective Power of Disinformation Campaigns," Journal of International Affairs 71.1.5 (2018): 69-76.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/vladimir -putin-web-breakup-internet-cia; Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet, Perseus Books, 2017.
https://www.rferl.0rg/a/russia-yandex-trouble-sancti0ns-ukra ine/31769182.html
Samuel A. Greene, "From Boom to Bust: Hardship, Mobilization & Russia's Social Contract," Daedalus 146.2 (2017): 113-27.
E.g., Putin's friend, the Rector of the Petersburg Mining University, earned 195 million rubles in 2016, the Rector of the Presidential Academy 65 million, and the Rector of the Higher School of Economics 45 million. The salary of a professor was estimated at 100-200 thousand rubles: https://myslo.ru/news /mir/2017-12-03-minobrnauki-proverit-zarplaty-rektorov-na -adekvatnost
https://rg.ru/2022/06/02/obiavleny-rezultaty-vyborov-ran.html
https://web.archive.Org/web/20161230022705/http://www.slate .com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/05/the_thri ving_russian_black_market_in_dissertations_and_the_crusade rs_fighting.html
Daniele Fattorini and Francesco Regoli, "Role of the Chronic Air Pollution Levels in Covid-19 Outbreak Risk in Italy," Environmental Pollution 264 (2020): 114732; Myrto Kasioumi and Thanasis Stengos, "The Effect of Pollution on the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe," Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 6.1 (2022): 129-40.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/10/08/russias-corona virus-excess-death-toll-hits-660k-a75254
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-covid -count-fake-statistics/2021/10/16/b9d47058-277f-llec-8739-5c b6aba30a30_story.html
Anders Aslund, "Responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus," Eurasian Geography and Economics 61.4-5 (2020): 532-45.
https://www.centrumbalticum.org/files/5109/BSR_Policy_Brie fing_ll_2021.pdf; see also Anna Temkina and Michele Rivkin- Fish, "Creating Health Care Consumers: The Negotiation of Un/ official Payments, Power and Trust in Russian Maternity Care," Social Theory & Health 18.4 (2020): 340-57.
Konstantin Platonov and Kirill Svetlov, "Conspiracy Theories Dissemination on SNS Vkontakte: COVID-19 Case,"
International Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, Springer, 2020.
Olga V. Kruzhkova et al., "Vandal Practices as a Psychological Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic," Changing Societies & Personalities 5.3 (2021): 452-80.
https://www.dissernet.org/publications/medinskyi-plagiat.htm
https://meduza.io/news/2022/06/09/putin-petr-i-ne-ottorgal -zemli-on-ih-vozvraschal-na-nashu-dolyu-tozhe-vypalo-vozvra schat
Gevorkyan et al., First Person, 52.
Alexander Etkind, "Mourning and Melancholia in Putin's Russia: An Essay in Qualitative Mnemonics," in Ellen Rutten et al., ed. Old Conflicts, New Media: Post-Socialist Digital Memories, Routledge, 2013, 32-48.
Alexander Etkind, "Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied: Magical Historicism in Contemporary Russian Fiction," Slavic Review 68.3 (2009): 631-58.
Viktor Shnirelman, Koleno Danovo. Eskhatologiia I antisemitism v sovremennoj Rossii, BBI, 2017.
Masha Gessen, "The Mysterious Murder of Darya Dugina," The New Yorker, August 26, 2022.
Alexander Etkind, Warped Mourning, Stanford University Press, 2013.
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble, Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? Oxford University Press, 2021; Alexander Etkind, "Alexey Navalny: A Hero of the New Time," New Perspectives 30.1 (2022): 19-26.
Jussi Lassila, "Aleksei Naval'nyi and Populist Re-ordering of Putin's Stability," Europe-Asia Studies 68.1 (2016): 118-37.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/alexei -navalny-parliamentary-republic-russia-ukraine
6 Gender and Degeneration
1 Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 52.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/metals-and-mining/our -insights/why-women-are-leaving-the-mining-industry-and-wh at-mining-companies-can-do-about-it; https://www.respons ibleminingfoundation.org/app/uploads/EN_Research-Insight -Gender-Inequality-June-2020.pdf
Alexander Etkind, "Petromacho, or Mechanisms of De-Modernization in a Resource State," Russian Politics & Law 56.1-2 (2018): 72-85 (published in Russian in 2013). Cara Daggett authored a similar concept; see her "Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and Authoritarian Desire," Millennium 47.1 (2018): 25-44.