Neo-Sovietism is the Soviet Union–style of policy decisions in some post-Soviet states, as well as a

political movement A political movement is a collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values. Political movements are usually in opposition to an element of the status quo, and are often associated with a certain ideology. Some t ...

of reviving the Soviet Union in the modern world or to reviving specific aspects of Soviet life based on the

nostalgia for the Soviet Union The social phenomenon of nostalgia for the era of the Soviet Union (russian: links=no, Ностальгия по СССР, Nostal'giya po SSSR), can include its politics, its society, its culture, its superpower status, or simply its aesth ...

. Some commentators have said that current Russian President Vladimir Putin holds many neo-Soviet views, especially concerning law and order and military strategic defense.

Neo-Sovietism in Russian state policies

According to

Pamela Druckerman Pamela Druckerman is an American-French writer and journalist living in Paris, France. In fall 2013, she became a contributing opinion writer for ''The New York Times International Edition''. Education and early life Pamela Druckerman grew up in ...

of '' The New York Times'', an element of neo-Sovietism is that "the government manages civil society, political life and the media". According to

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of '' The Wall Street Journal'', it includes efforts by Putin to express the glory of the Soviet Union in order to generate support for a "revived Great Russian power in the future" by bringing back memories of various Russian accomplishments that legitimatized Soviet dominance, including the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany. Kaminski continues on by saying that neo-Sovietism "offers up Russian

jingoism Jingoism is nationalism in the form of aggressive and proactive foreign policy, such as a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national inte ...

stripped bare of Marxist internationalist pretenses" and uses it to scare Russia's neighbours and to generate Russian patriotism and anti-Americanism. Andrew Meier of the '' Los Angeles Times'' in 2008 listed three points that laid out neo-Sovietism and how modern Russia resembles the Soviet Union: *Russia was a land of doublespeak. Meier claims that Russia has deliberately distorted words and facts on various subjects, particularly regarding the Russo-Georgian War at the time by claiming that the United States instigated the conflict and that Georgia was committing genocide in South Ossetia. *Russia was willing to enhance its power by any means possible, including harsh repression of its own citizens with examples being

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and the

Mothers of Beslan Mothers of Beslan (russian: Матери Беслана) or Beslan Mothers' Committee (russian: Комитет матерей Беслана) is a support and advocacy group of parents whose children were among the more than 1128 victims of the ...

. *Russia remains a land in which "fear of the state—and its suffocating reach—prevails" by introducing numerous laws that limit free expression and promote

propaganda Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded ...

Organizations

All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1995) All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (russian: Всесоюзная Коммунистическая партия (большевиков)), (''Vsesoyuznaya Kommunystycheskaya partiya'' ВКП(б)) is a communist party operating in the former ...

* All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991) *

Armenian Communist Party The Armenian Communist Party ( hy, Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն, ՀԿԿ; ''Hayastani Komunistakan Kusaktsutyun'', HKK) is a communist party in Armenia. It considers itself the successor to the Armenia ...

Azerbaijan United Communist Party The United Communist Party of Azerbaijan ( az, Azərbaycan Birləşmiş Kommunist Partiyası) is a political party in Azerbaijan. AVKP was set up in the end of 1993 by the scientist Sayad Sayadov and registered by the Justice Ministry in 1995. A ...

Communist Party of the Russian Federation , anthem = , seats1_title = Seats in the State Duma , seats1 = , seats2_title = Seats in the Federation Council , seats2 = , seats3_title = Governors , seats3 = , seats4_title ...

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992) The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, ''Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza''; short: КПСС, ''KPSS'') is a political party led by Sergei Skvo ...

* Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001) *

Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...

* Essence of Time * Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union * Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Neo-Sovietism in Russian state policies

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