Socialist Nostalgia or Capitalist Rationality: the Soviet Union, Putin's Russia and the Work of Martín Baña

This article is an interpretation of Martín Baña’s book Quien no extraña al comunismo no tiene corazónpublished in 2021, which analyzes the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin as a figure of political power in Russia. I try to synthetically present the most lucid contributions and...

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Autor principal: Ben, Tobías
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Publicado: Centro de Estudios Avanzados. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. 2022
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Sumario:This article is an interpretation of Martín Baña’s book Quien no extraña al comunismo no tiene corazónpublished in 2021, which analyzes the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin as a figure of political power in Russia. I try to synthetically present the most lucid contributions and try to outline the reading keys to understand a fundamental work about the Russian actuality from a historical and cultural point of view. The Russian revolution and the consequent emergence of the Soviet Union sustained for decades an alternative political model against the prevailing capitalism in the rest of the planet, for which the end of this project left in its wake long debates and unresolved issues. Martín Baña is particularly interested in Putin’s construction of power, going through the causes of the end of the socialist project to the establishment of the capitalist system in the Russian nation