Ruscism

== English == === Alternative forms === Rashism, ruscism, Russism, Russianism === Etymology === Borrowed from Russian раши́зм (rašízm) or Ukrainian раши́зм (rašýzm), blend of Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia (chiefly derogatory)”) +‎ фаши́зм (fašízm, “fascism”), the first an unadapted borrowing from English Russia. Compare Russian Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”) or Ukrainian Росі́я (Rosíja, “Russia”). By surface analysis, blend of Russia +‎ fascism. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɹʌʃɪzəm/ === Proper noun === Ruscism (politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist. 2015, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Memory, Media, and Secularization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis,” in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (→ISSN), v 1, n 1, →ISBN, pp 160–61: Pro-Ukrainian commentators also used the word Rashizm. Derived from Rasha (from the English “Russia”), combined with the Russian fashizm, and perhaps best translated as “Ruscism,” this term is . . . 2016, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis” (New Security Challenges series), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, p 107: Pro-Ukrainian commentators have also used the word ‘Rashism’ (conflation of ‘Russia’ and ‘fascism’) to emphasize the aggressive intentions of Russia. 2020, Marlene Lurelle, “Reductio ad Hitlerum as a New Frame for Political and Geopolitical Conflicts,” in Eric Shiraev, Jennifer Keohane, Martijn Icks, and Sergei A. Samoilenko editors, Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, p 315: On the other side, a large segment of the Ukrainian press has been presenting the Putin regime as fascist: commentators have coined the nickname Putler (Putin + Hitler) and the term Rashism, which conflates Russia and fascism. ==== Related terms ==== rashist ruscist russist ==== Translations ==== === See also === Eurasianism Putinism Duginism Ukronazi, Ukronazism Putler === References === Snyder, Timothy D. (23 April 2022), “The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[1], The New York Times Company, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 April 2022: “In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: ‘ruscism.’”