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Contents

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

I Introduction

The ratings problem

Main material

Delimitations

Transliteration of Russian words and names

II Theoretical Points of Orientation

Political succession

Legitimacy

Legitimacy in non-democratic states

Charisma and routinization

Legitimacy and political myth

III Legitimizing Putin

The 2011-2012 legitimation crisis

Re-legitimization: Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea

Strength and stability

The great power myth

Getting out of troubles: the smuta myth

Dynamic interplay: the phoenix myth

The bulwark and its champion

The man of action

Great communicator, benevolent ruler

Putin the populist

Putin the common Russian

IV Legitimacy through Othering

Othering and Russia

Relations with the United States

Dealing with Trump

Enter Joe Biden

No more the underdog

Paradigm shift and saber-rattling

V Challenges from Within

Electoral authoritarianism in Russia

The presidential elections of 2018

The Navalny challenge

Medvedev’s downfall

Navalny vs. Putin

The fall guy function

Stability and order

The good tsar

VI Challenge from Without

The corona crisis: devolving power

Entering center stage—and exiting again

The Sputnik V vaccine

Faring better than the West?

Skewing the statistics

The pandemic and the image

VII The Succession Issue

Looking to the East?

Guarantor of the constitution?

Successions in the Russian post-Soviet past

Post-Soviet precedents

Postponing the succession: the constitutional reform

VIII Conclusion

References