Ruscism en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹʌʃɪzəm/
- (Southern-England) audio
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.
Meanings
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(derogatory, neologism, slang) Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist.
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.
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, p 315Pro-Ukrainian commentators have also used the word ‘Rashism’ (conflation of ‘Russia’ and ‘fascism’) to emphasize the aggressive intentions of Russia.
2016, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis” (New Security Challenges series), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p 107[…] science, and science-based ultramodern technologies (AI) invented for progress have transformed into cynical means of conducting the third world war by immoral intellect of the ideologists of Ruscism [4].
2020 April 27, Actual problems of science and practice, International Science Group, →ISBN, page 175:“We have beat fascism, and we will defeat Ruscism,” said Pavel Kirilenko, governor of the Donetsk region, who arrived with heavily armed guards to lay flowers at the monument.
2022 May 10, Michael Schwirtz, “Invasion upends a shared World War II history with Ukraine”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 130, page A8: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 . . .
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, pp 160–61
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruscism | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Russianism | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Rashism | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Russism | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
ruscist · rashist · Ukronazi · Putler · russist · Eurasianism · Ukronazism · Putinism · Duginism
Translations (23)
uk раши́зм ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · hy ռաշիզմ ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · ko 라시즘 ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · lt rašizmas ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · be рашы́зм ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · ru раши́зм ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · es ruscismo ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · yi ראַשיזם ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · cs rašismus ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · pt russismo ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · ja ラシズム ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · ka რაშიზმი ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · ro ruscism ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · de Raschismus ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · et rašism ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · lv rašisms ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · az raşizm ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · pl raszyzm ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · bg раши́зъм ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · tr ruşizm ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · sk rašizmus ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · cmn 俄西斯主義 /俄西斯主义 ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism) · fr ruscisme ((politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism)