The Weimar/Russia Comparison Revisited

IF 0.7 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE Russian Politics Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI:10.30965/24518921-00803007
Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S Kopstein
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Abstract Just over a quarter-century ago, the authors published a widely read essay comparing Weimar Germany and Post-Soviet Russia in historical perspective. After Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine, comparisons of Vladimir Putin’s regime with Nazi Germany are once again tragically relevant. Reexamining our arguments from 1997 shows the continuing relevance of the variables we emphasized in that essay: the burdensome legacies of the past imperial regime, intense international pressure to marketize post-Soviet Russia’s statist economy, and Russia’s weak party system. Three main issues in our earlier article, in retrospect, required greater development: pinpointing the time span needed to assess regime change, distinguishing mobilizational and patrimonial forms of ‘anti-liberal statism,’ and exploring more fully the foreign policy options for would-be defenders of the liberal global order facing powerful revanchist challenges. We conclude that this sort of ‘replication’ of earlier research should be encouraged more often among political scientists adopting the comparative-historical approach.
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魏玛与俄罗斯的比较再看
就在25年前,作者发表了一篇广为流传的文章,从历史的角度比较了魏玛德国和后苏联时期的俄罗斯。在俄罗斯无端攻击乌克兰之后,弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)政权与纳粹德国的对比再一次具有悲剧性。重新审视我们从1997年开始的论点,会发现我们在那篇文章中强调的变量仍然具有相关性:过去帝国政权的繁重遗产,后苏联时代俄罗斯中央集权经济市场化的巨大国际压力,以及俄罗斯薄弱的政党制度。回顾过去,我们之前文章中的三个主要问题需要更大的发展:确定评估政权更迭所需的时间跨度,区分“反自由主义国家主义”的动员形式和世袭形式,以及更全面地探索面对强大复仇主义挑战的自由主义全球秩序的潜在捍卫者的外交政策选择。我们的结论是,采用比较历史方法的政治科学家应该更经常地鼓励这种对早期研究的“复制”。
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Russian Politics
Russian Politics Arts and Humanities-History
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