Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes: A comparison of stalinism and putinism

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Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Turkey

Approval Date: 2016

Student: ONUR YENGİL

Co-Supervisor: AYŞE PAMİR DİETRİCH

Supervisor: PINAR KÖKSAL

Abstract:

This thesis aims to compare and contrast Stalin’s Soviet Union with Putin’s post-Soviet Russia by looking at the totalitarian and authoritarian characteristics that these two periods as well as these two leaders display. It is argued that despite certain differences that they have, the totalitarian regime of Stalin and authoritarian regime of Putin share certain similarities the roots of which go back to Russian history.