Die chauvinistische Bedrohung

Russia's aggressive war of extermination against Ukraine cannot be understood and stopped without understanding Russian chauvinism. It feeds on nationalist and misogynist ideas and serves the autocratic Putin regime to legitimise itself. Russia's chauvinist policies are not only attacking Ukraine. It also threatens significant parts of Russian society and wants to destroy the European security order based on rules and values. Russian chauvinism regards everything that has to do with liberalism as hostile - and this attitude is also spreading in Europe. Sabine Fischer, Eastern Europe expert at the renowned Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, provides us with a completely new view of Russia's power and expansionist policies. She explains how aggressive nationalism, misogynistic chauvinism and autocracy are interrelated in Russia, and how Europe and the Western world must position themselves to defy Russian chauvinism. "Many talk about Russia - Sabine Fischer knows it from the inside, better than hardly anyone else in Germany. In lucid analysis, she reveals the chauvinistic character of its aggressive politics and its president. Anyone who wants to understand Vladimir Putin's destructive and self-destructive war must read this book" Rüdiger von Fritsch.