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<p>This paper builds on existing scholarship on the so-called “Young Conservatives” (<i>mladokonservatory</i>), a generation of Russian intellectuals born in or around the 1970s. These thinkers have contributed to ideological projects and manifestos that align with, and in some cases have been incorporated into, the current Putin regime’s repressive policies. Focusing on four key figures—Vitaly Averyanov (b. 1973), Konstantin Krylov (1967–2020), Egor Kholmogorov (b. 1975), and Zakhar Prilepin (b. 1975)—this study investigates how they conceptualize war and how their imaginaries of war have evolved since the early 2000s. By analyzing their blog posts, articles, interviews, and books, this paper aims to uncover intellectual justifications for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The research seeks to understand the intellectual mechanisms through which militarist visions were legitimized or made conceivable within conservative discourse. The analysis reveals that there were already existing, individually developed political imaginaries that prominently featured war, each with distinct structures and emphases. Based on the analysis of four conservative thinkers, the study outlines four analytical patterns of how war is imagined and justified in contemporary Russia.</p>

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The Russian young conservatives’ imaginaries of war

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    2026年2月16日

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  • Anastasia Skachilova

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This paper builds on existing scholarship on the so-called “Young Conservatives” (mladokonservatory), a generation of Russian intellectuals born in or around the 1970s. These thinkers have contributed to ideological projects and manifestos that align with, and in some cases have been incorporated into, the current Putin regime’s repressive policies. Focusing on four key figures—Vitaly Averyanov (b. 1973), Konstantin Krylov (1967–2020), Egor Kholmogorov (b. 1975), and Zakhar Prilepin (b. 1975)—this study investigates how they conceptualize war and how their imaginaries of war have evolved since the early 2000s. By analyzing their blog posts, articles, interviews, and books, this paper aims to uncover intellectual justifications for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The research seeks to understand the intellectual mechanisms through which militarist visions were legitimized or made conceivable within conservative discourse. The analysis reveals that there were already existing, individually developed political imaginaries that prominently featured war, each with distinct structures and emphases. Based on the analysis of four conservative thinkers, the study outlines four analytical patterns of how war is imagined and justified in contemporary Russia.