Zarys obrazu władz Federacji Rosyjskiej w totalitarnym dyskursie rosyjskiego radykalnego prawosławia

Piotr Zemszał

doi:10.31261/pr.18753

Published: 2025-09-21

No. 3 (191) (2025)

Outline of the Image of the Russian Federation Authorities in the Totalitarian Discourse of Russian Radical Orthodoxy

Piotr Zemszał

Section: Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.18753

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The text analyzes the means by which the devastating criticism of Vladimir Putin and his immediate environment is expressed, which is carried out in a selected segment of the discourse of contemporary Russian ultra-Orthodox nationalists. Taking this criticism outside the pragmatic field (in the sense of political pragmatics) and bringing it into the territory of Manichean ideology determines its uncompromisingness, which in many aspects resembles the uncompromisingness of attacks carried out in totalitarian discourses.

The overwhelming majority of the analyzed linguistic means of constructing an image of Putin and his entourage are based on value oppositions that are not ideological oppositions. The universal axiology is evident in such generalized conceptual categories as the criminal nature of power, its harmfulness, deceitfulness, impurity of intent and deceitfulness, illegality, etc. The totalitarian nature of this discourse lies in the fact that negative valorization on the basis of universal oppositions is possible only if it coincides with the negative valorization made on the basis of the scale of ideological values, as well as on its Manichaeism and the extremity of its expressed assessments, which find expression in quite striking in their expression linguistic means.

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totalitarian discourse Russia, Russian language, ultra-Orhodoxy

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Zemszał, P. (2025). Outline of the Image of the Russian Federation Authorities in the Totalitarian Discourse of Russian Radical Orthodoxy. Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (3 (191), 222–258. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.18753

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Piotr Zemszał

pietruszka@wp.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0822-8937

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Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika Poland

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Piotr Zemszał – pracownik Katedry Języków Słowiańskich
Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, absolwent historii i
filologii rosyjskiej, badacz pragmatyki tzw. nowomowy radzieckiej i
dyskursu współczesnego radykalnego prawosławia, tłumacz.
Zainteresowania naukowe: manifestacje ideologii w dyskursie, relacje
między dyskursem ideologicznym a kulturą, sposoby językowego
oddziaływania na odbiorcę.

No. 3 (191) (2025)
Published: 2025-09-21

ISSN: 0137-298X

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