Mikhail Suslov is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

1 Introduction: Understanding Putinism

Studying Putinism as an Ideology

What Is Putinism's Ideological Identity?

What Is the Meaning of Putinism?

Is There Popular Demand for Putinism?

2 Political Thinkers of the Past in the Service of Putinism

Slavophiles

Anti-mimetism in the Teaching of Slavophiles

Populism in the Ideology of Slavophiles

Ivan Il'in in Contemporary Russian Regime Ideology

Il'in in Ideological Debates Today

Il'in's Worldview and the Regime Ideology

Aleksandr Zinov'ev

Zinov'ev's Social Theory

Anti-Westernism and the "Philosophy of War"

3 Conservatism: Brief Engagement and Transformation of the Doctrine

Debates on Ideology in Post-Soviet Russia

Conservative Ideology in the 1990s

Merging Academic Studies of Conservatism and Politics

URP and the Regime Ideology in the 2000s

Turn Away from Conservatism: After 2011/12

4 Ideological Forms of National Iterations

Russian Nationalism or Nationalistic Discourses?

Civilisationism

Ideology of the Russian World

Diaspora as a Political Problem: Dealing with "Compatriots"

Conceptualisation of Diaspora Before 2014: The Russian World Project

Pan-Slavism

5 Geo-political Ideologies

Greater Eurasia: Large and Central

"Large space" Thinking and Eurasian Projects

Greater Eurasia: Re-centring Russia

Isolationism in Geo-political Thinking

Geo-political Justice

6 Religious Aspects of Putinism

Ideology of the Russian Orthodox Church

The Theory of "Basic Values"

Justice and Orthodoxy

Geo-political Dimension of the "Basic Values"

Historical Unity and the ROC

Russia - My History Exhibition

Messianism

Low-cost Messianism in Putin's Russia

Discussions on Messianism: 1990s-mid-2000s

Messianism: Expansionist to Isolationist

Mainstream Messianic Politics: Mid-2000s to the Present

7 Conclusion

What is Putin's ideology? is a key question for the contemporary world. This book analyses this ideology, which it terms "Putinism".