Sergey Karaganov, one of the founders of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, has created the “Code of the Russian” to codify an analogue of Soviet ideals adapted to Putin’s Russia. Stalin’s image is being rehabilitated in Russia through new monuments and official praise that reinforces strongman traditions in Russian leadership and compares the Russian fight against the Nazis in World War II to the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Karaganov’s code fits into the broader revival of historical conservative and imperial ideologies in Putin’s Russia, of which Stalin’s rehabilitation is a central part. The cult of a strong central leader and sprawling state power has once again become the dominant motif of Russia’s public and official discourse.
Russian ‘Code’ and Stalin’s Rehabilitation Highlight Kremlin’s Ideological Turn – Jamestown
