PUTINISM AS A THIN IDEOLOGY OR BRICOLAGE? THEORETICAL OUTCOMES RELATED TO THE RADICALIZATION OF THE SUPPORT FOR RUSSIAN FEDERATION AUTHORITARIAN REGIME

For a long time, the question has been raised whether there is an ideology called "putinism" and whether it can be assimilated to fascism.The premise of this article is that putinism exists, it is an ideology in the making, "thinly centered" like populism.The article presents the dispute between "eternal fascism" and "defascization of fascism", as well as the most important positions of some authors in the field on the possibility of equating putinism with fascism.The article concludes that putinism is a new phenomenon, an ideological bricolage specific of today's Russia, the result of a symbiosis of nationalism, fascism and far-left ideas, plus a form of messianism that transcends Russia's political regimes and ideologies.Putinism has not reached the stage of ideology, but it manifests itself in extreme violence (the war in Ukraine), a sign of political radicalism.