Conservatism in Russia
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Conservatism in Russia (
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Overview
Russia has a strong history of
State control
Russian conservatives believe in the government largely controlling both economic and social policy, with a strong
After 2014 Russia often presented itself as "the last bastion of conservatism"[5] worldwide through its state-controlled foreign media, gaining some traction when in 2016 a conservative German family moved to Russia to "protect their children from sexual permissiveness of German society",[6] but returned to Germany shortly after.[7] In 2023 Russian authorities once again declared themselves "the last bastion" and invited American conservatives to move to a dedicated village in Moscow suburbs.[5]
Social views
Social views held by conservative Russians are largely influenced by
Economic views
Although
Religious views
As strong adherents to the Russian Orthodox Church, Russian conservatives largely espouse traditional Christian views on social issues, with the church collaborating closely with the state in social and cultural affairs under Russian president Putin's successive administrations. The rise of
History
The traditions of
Attempts at liberal restructuring of the
Political parties
The two main conservative parties in Russia are the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) led by Leonid Slutsky and United Russia led by its de facto leader Vladimir Putin. Other Russian conservative parties include Rodina, the Russian All-People's Union, and the Eurasia Party. United Russia is the ruling party of Russia and largest party of Russia, holding 74.4% of seats in the State Duma.[13][14]
The LDRP was founded in 1992 by Zhirinovsky as a more ideological conservative party. The LDRP scored 22.9% of votes in the 1993 state Duma elections, opposing the right–left dichotomy in Russia like the United Russia party. In 2016, the party received 13.4% of the vote, giving it 39 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. During the 1990s, Zhirinovsky and the LDPR formed a component of the political opposition to Yeltsin in the 1990s, although members of the party largely voted against the
Criticism
Although the ideology itself has not been poorly received by the general public, political parties such as United Russia have come under intense scrutiny as a party of "crooks and thieves", a term coined by activist
The ideology of Russian conservatism has been criticized as authoritarian and an oppressive system of governance. Opposition from both
Declarative conservatism of the Russian authorities has been described as hypocrisy by those who pointed out the lavish lifestyle of Russian elites, numerous morality scandals in which top politicians were involved, a bizarre mix of Orthodox, Soviet, and Stalinist symbolism (the latter two being
List of prominent Russian conservative thinkers
- Nikolay Danilevsky
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Ivan Ilyin
- Mikhail Katkov
- Konstantin Leontiev
- Natalia Narochnitskaya
- Konstantin Pobedonostsev
- Igor Shafarevich
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Sergey Solovyov
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Nikolay Strakhov
- Lev Tikhomirov
- Sergei Trubetskoy
See also
References
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