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Russia, Liberalism, and the Illiberal Imagination

Russia, Liberalism, and the Illiberal Imagination

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Ideology Unbound is a podcast from the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University and hosted by Laura K. Field. We talk about the past and future of ideologies, and about liberalism and its challenges, with thinkers in the United States and around the world.

In this episode, Laura Field sits down with Marlene Laruelle, a leading scholar of Russian political thought and contemporary illiberalism, to discuss her intellectual journey, her work on Russia’s ideological landscape, and the conceptual foundations of her influential framework of illiberalism. The conversation explores Laruelle's early research in Russian intellectual history; understanding illiberalism not as a regime type but as a coherent political project defined by backlash against lived liberalism and by an alternative vision built around sovereignty, majoritarianism, civilizational geopolitics, social homogeneity, and conservative values; and the complicated relationship between liberalism and illiberalism.
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