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Ideological Complementarity or Competition? The Kremlin, the Church, and the Monarchist Idea in Today's Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2020

Marlene Laruelle
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In 2018, Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, was the most popular of all Russian historical figures of the twentieth century; the fame of White officers such as Alexander Kolchak and Anton Denikin was also on the rise. Obviously, broad sympathy for the last Romanov does not imply support for a potential restoration of the monarchy, yet the past few years have seen the activation of several monarchist lobbies, especially around the Russian Orthodox Church and in some well-connected Kremlin circles that seek the ideological hardening of the Putin regime. In this article, I use the case study of the monarchist idea to explore how the Kremlin manages the production of a large and diversified set of ideologies. I explore how the relationship between state authorities, ideological entrepreneurs, and some societal actors such as the Church is articulated along a continuum of permanent complementarity and competition in the production of ideologies.

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RussiamemorymonarchismRomanovtsarismOrthodoxy
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Slavic Review , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , Summer 2020 , pp. 345 - 364
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85 “Muftii Moskvy predlozhil sniat΄ blokbaster o Nikolae II v otvet na ‘Matil΄du,” Interfax, August 9, 2017, at http://www.interfax.ru/moscow/574154 (accessed April 14, 2020).

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87 “Ministerstvo kul΄tury: Ekspertiza Poklonskoi ne povliiaet na prokat ‘Matil΄dy’—ee avtory ne videli fil΄ma,” Meduza, April 25, 2017, at https://meduza.io/news/2017/04/25/minkult-ekspertiza-poklonskoy-ne-povliyaet-na-prokat-matildy-ee-avtory-ne-videli-filma (accessed April 14, 2020).

88 “V Gosdume napomnili nedovol΄nym fil΄mom ‘Matil΄da’ o prave na svobodu tvorchestva,” Interfax, February 13, 2017, at http://www.interfax.ru/russia/549602 (accessed April 14, 2020).