Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes: a comparison of Stalinism and Putinism

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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.

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National characteristics, Russian.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/25989

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O. Yengil, “Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes: a comparison of Stalinism and Putinism,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2016.