Russia uses separate words for 19th-century and present populism, unlike Europe

Evidence

The post-2008 era turbocharged this addiction. Suddenly, academics rushed to the populism industry while newspaper editors churned out op-eds. The gap between what populism now stood for and what it once meant was clear. To Europeans the radical farmers still hovered somewhere in the background, but only as distant ancestors. (The Russians, however, remain keenly aware of this discrepancy and use different words for their own “populist” movements: the original narodnichestvo of the late nineteenth century, and the current popoulizmo, here denoting a coarser form of demagoguery.) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 68

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the distinction between narodnichestvo (original, farmer-based Russian populism) and popoulizmo (current demagogic usage) that most languages collapse into one term.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: why did Russian preserve this lexical distinction while other languages collapsed the two meanings into one word — and does the same semantic split exist for other ‘-ism’ terms?
• XREF: connects to: The word populism originated with American Midwest farmers, not Europe — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 58; The same political term can carry radically divergent meanings across allies; Adopting Western ideology drew Russia closer to the West than ever — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 387

Broader Connections

• The same political term can carry radically divergent meanings across allies #expands (0.85)
• The word populism originated with American Midwest farmers, not Europe #expands (0.80) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 58
• Adopting Western ideology drew Russia closer to the West than ever #qualifies (0.70) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 387