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Beyond Weimar-Russia: The Putin-Medvedev Duumvirate as Imperial Revanchist

Martin, Brian Joseph
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243871475

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2009, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Studies.
Throughout the 1990s, many scholars were compelled to draw parallels between the newly founded Russian Federation and the failed democratic institutions of interwar Germany. Scholars worried that a lethal combination of social, economic, and geopolitical turmoil would propel the Russian government to the same tragic fate as their Weimar counterparts. Unwilling to forget the horrifying results of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and subsequent rise of the Third Reich, intellectuals recognized the analogy as a valuable tool for determining when, why, and with what consequences young democracies fail. While Vladimir Putin’s recent consolidation and verticalization of power has been well documented, the Weimar-Russia analogy has, since 1999, received comparatively little attention from academia or the media. The present exercise implements structural analogical reasoning to give historical perspective to the latest manifestations of the Putin-Medvedev duumvirate, ultimately suggesting that the country remains squarely on a Weimar trajectory.
John Mueller, PhD (Advisor)
Trevor Brown, PhD (Committee Member)
53 p.
Political Science
Weimar-Russia; Russia; Weimar; Putin; Medvedev; Analogy; Sudetenland; South Ossetia

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  • Martin, B. J. (2009). Beyond Weimar-Russia: The Putin-Medvedev Duumvirate as Imperial Revanchist [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243871475

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Martin, Brian. Beyond Weimar-Russia: The Putin-Medvedev Duumvirate as Imperial Revanchist. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243871475.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Martin, Brian. "Beyond Weimar-Russia: The Putin-Medvedev Duumvirate as Imperial Revanchist." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243871475

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