Putin's pedigree

PUTIN’S PEDIGREE

Chris Danziger, tutor, Continuing Education Department, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Monday 25–Wednesday 27 January < 9.15 am < COURSE FEES R345; Staff and students R173

Putin’s political opponents are either dead or living in exile under assumed names. In Russia today there is total control of both the traditional and social media. Merely to label the action in Ukraine a ‘war’ carries a stiff prison sentence. The judiciary and the legislature simply rubber stamp the decisions of the executive branch. But Putin’s brutal dictatorship has a long pedigree. The authority of the Russian Tsars was absolute. They gave way to an even more authoritarian system in the Soviet era. Putin is perpetuating the only political system that the Russian people have ever known.

Lecture titles

1. Dynastic absolutism under the Tsars

2. Ideological absolutism under the Soviets

3. Kleptocratic absolutism under Putin

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