CASE STUDY-THE EXPRESSION OF NATIONALISM IN VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RHETORIC
Accepted
28 March 2026
Available Online
15 November 2017
Abstract
BASED ON A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ALGORITHM, THE MAIN POSITIONS OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ON RUSSIAN OFFICIAL NATIONALITY IN ANTITHESIS ARE ANALYZED WITH WESTERN EUROPEAN MULTICULTURALISM AND DECADENCE. PUTIN'S SPEECHES AVOID THE DEADLY TRAPS OF NATIONALISM AND RELY ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF A PATRIOTISM WITH ROOTS REDISCOVERED IN RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY, BUT ALSO WITH NOSTALGIC REFERENCES TO THE SOVIET ETHICAL CODE AND DEMONIZING THE WESTERN DECADENCE. WHEN EUROPEAN MULTICULTURALISM IS DECLARED A MISTAKE AND BURIED BY ITS OWN PROMOTERS AND PROTECTORS THE APPEAL TO THE RHETORICAL DIMENSION OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE BECOMES SINE QUA NON. THE WINNER CAN ONLY BE CLASSICAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE BUILT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RHETORICAL ART, AS DEMONSTRATED BY THE SPIRAL OF HISTORY THE RHETORICAL ART OF THE GREAT PERSONALITIES .
Keywords
VLADIMIR PUTIN
NATIONALISM
PATRIOTISM
MULTICULTURALISM
WESTERN
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