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The Home of Political Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson
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University College London
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Political technology' is the means by which the Kremlin achieved a monopoly of political control after the chaos of the 1990s. It then metastasised to take over other areas: civil society, history and foreign policy. Political technology produced the propaganda that produced the war against Ukraine. Political technology will outlive the end of real politics in an increasingly authoritarian Russia; it influences everything else that Russia does.

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Political Technology
The Globalisation of Political Manipulation
 , pp. 36 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Russia
  • Andrew Wilson, University College London
  • Book: Political Technology
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355308.003
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  • Andrew Wilson, University College London
  • Book: Political Technology
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355308.003
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  • Russia
  • Andrew Wilson, University College London
  • Book: Political Technology
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355308.003
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