Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9004366679

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In Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia scholars scrutinise developments in official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Engaging experts on Russia from several academic fields, the book offers case studies on the vicissitudes of cultural policies, political ideologies and imperial visions, on memory politics on the grassroot as well as official levels, and on the links between political and national imaginaries and popular culture in fields as diverse as fashion design and pro-natalist advertising. Contributors are Niklas Bernsand, Lena Jonson, Ekaterina Kalinina, Natalija Majsova, Olga Malinova, Alena Minchenia, Elena Morenkova-Perrier, Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, Andrei Rogatchevski, Tomas Sniegon, Igor Torbakov, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, and Yuliya Yurchuk.

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics

Author: Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0300112882

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Why have Russians chosen unlimited autocracy throughout their history? Why is democracy unable to flourish in Russia?

The Russia Reader
The Russia Reader

Author: Adele Marie Barker

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2010-07-12

Total Pages: 793

ISBN-13: 0822346486

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An introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the worlds largest country, from the earliest written accounts of the Russian people to today.

Russia After Lenin
Russia After Lenin

Author: Vladimir Brovkin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-04

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1134680589

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In Russian Society and Politics 1921-1929, Vladimir Brovkin offers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic and social history of developments in Russia in the 1920's.

Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Author: Isabel De Madariaga

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1317881893

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This is a collection of thirteen major essays on eighteenth-century Russia by one of the most distinguished Western historians. They illustrate and explore three major themes: the development of the Russian state and Russian society, in the years when Russia was changing from a minor power on the European periphery to a major actor on the continental stage; the influence of western ideas and western thought on Russian politics and culture; and the impact of the Enlightenment on Russia. This is a substantial contribution not just to the history of Russia, but to early modern Europe generally.

The Future of the Soviet Past
The Future of the Soviet Past

Author: Anton Weiss-Wendt

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0253057604

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In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a "bad past." While Putin's regime has acquired nearly complete control over interpretations of the past, The Future of the Soviet Past reveals that Russia's inability to fully rewrite its Soviet history plays an essential part in its current political agenda. Diverse contributors consider the many ways in which public narrative shapes Russian culture—from cinema, television, and music to museums, legislature, and education—as well as how patriotism reflected in these forms of culture implies a casual acceptance of the valorization of Stalin and his role in World War II. The Future of the Soviet Past provides effective and nuanced examples of how Russia has reimagined its Soviet history as well as how that past still influences Russia's policymaking.

The Dimensions of Hegemony
The Dimensions of Hegemony

Author: Craig Brandist

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-02-04

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9004276793

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Though generally associated with the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the idea of hegemony had a crucial history in revolutionary Russia where it was used to conceptualize the dynamics of political and cultural leadership. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study considers the cultural dimensions of hegemony, with particular focus on the role of language in political debates and in scholarship of the period. It is shown that considerations of the relations between the proletariat and peasantry, the cities to the countryside and the metropolitan centre to the colonies of the Russian Empire demanded an intense dialogue between practical politics and theoretical reflection, which led to critical perspectives now assumed to be the achievements of, for instance, sociolinguistics and post-colonial studies.