The Use of History in Putin's Russia
The Use of History in Putin's Russia

Author: James C. Pearce

Publisher: Vernon Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1648890393

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History is not just a study of past events, but a product and an idea for the modernisation and consolidation of the nation. ‘The Use of History in Putin’s Russia’ examines how the past is perceived in contemporary Russia and analyses the ways in which the Russian state uses history to create a broad coalition of consensus and forge a new national identity. Central to issues of governance and national identity, the Russian state utilises history for the purpose of state-building and reviving Russia’s national consciousness in the twenty-first century. Assessing how history mediates the complex relationship between state and population, this book analyses the selection process of constructing and recycling a preferred historical narrative to create loyal, patriotic citizens, ultimately aiding its modernisation. Different historical spheres of Russian life are analysed in-depth including areas of culture, politics, education, and anniversaries. The past is not just a state matter, a socio-political issue linked to the modernisation process, containing many paradoxes. This book has wide-ranging appeal, not only for professors and students specialising in Russia and the former Soviet Space in the fields of History and Memory, International Relations, Educational Studies, and Intercultural Communication but also for policymakers and think-tanks.

Women’s History in Russia
Women’s History in Russia

Author: Marianna Muravyeva

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-11-19

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1443871370

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This collection of essays, all by Russian scholars, is the first of its kind to address a broad English-speaking audience. It presents the theories and methodologies employed by Russian national historiography to make sense of Russian gender and women's history. The essays in this volume discuss women's and gender history in Russia, highlighting sensitive areas in the Russian academic community and in Russian society in general. The book appears in the context of an intense backlash against t...

An Environmental History of Russia
An Environmental History of Russia

Author: Paul Josephson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0521869587

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This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism
A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism

Author: Evgeny Dobrenko

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2011-11-27

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0822977443

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This edited volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas—political, intellectual, and institutional—the authors capture the progression and structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. The chapters follow early movements such as formalism, the Bakhtin Circle, Proletklut, futurism, the fellow-travelers, and the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers. By the cultural revolution of 1928, literary criticism became a mechanism of Soviet policies, synchronous with official ideology. The chapters follow theory and criticism into the 1930s with examinations of the Union of Soviet Writers, semantic paleontology, and socialist realism under Stalin. A more "humanized" literary criticism appeared during the ravaging years of World War II, only to be supplanted by a return to the party line, Soviet heroism, and anti-Semitism in the late Stalinist period. During Khrushchev's Thaw, there was a remarkable rise in liberal literature and criticism, that was later refuted in the nationalist movement of the "long" 1970s. The same decade saw, on the other hand, the rise to prominence of semiotics and structuralism. Postmodernism and a strong revival of academic literary studies have shared the stage since the start of the post-Soviet era. For the first time anywhere, this collection analyzes all of the important theorists and major critical movements during a tumultuous ideological period in Russian history, including developments in emigre literary theory and criticism.

The Rise of Historicism in Russia
The Rise of Historicism in Russia

Author: Edward C. Thaden

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Explores the paradigm shift of the 19th century in which Russian historiography changed emphasis from Enlightenment notions of causality and universal human nature to historicism's reliance on ideas of development and unique individuality. The author traces the efforts of archivists and historians such as Tatischev and Granovskii to professionalize Russian historiography and explores the debates on the approach to historicism between writers such as Solov'ev and the lesser-known Samarin. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Gender in Russian History and Culture
Gender in Russian History and Culture

Author: L. Edmondson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-07-11

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0230518923

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This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late seventeenth century to the Stalinist era and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The works, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight in particular gender difference, the construction of both femininity and masculinity in a culture that has undergone major transformation and disruptions over the period of three centuries.

Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Author: Wendy Rosslyn

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1906924651

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"This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia--from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia--discussing their interaction with the Church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. It shows how women struggled for greater autonomy and, both individually and collectively, developed a dynamic presence in Russia's culture and society"--Publisher's description.

Dancing on Bones
Dancing on Bones

Author: Katie Stallard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0197575358

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Dancing on Bones is the story of how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule.History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, authoritarian rule is on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones, probing the version ofhistory that leaders in China, Russia, and North Korea teach their citizens.These three states consistently top the list of threats to the global order and US national security. All are governed by autocratic regimes. All have nuclear weapons and believe that the era of American hegemony is fading. All three share a sense of historical grievance, rooted in the wars of thelast century - specifically World War II and the Korean War - that their leaders exploit to shore up popular support at home and fuel increasingly aggressive foreign policy. Decades after the real guns fell silent, these wars rage on in China, Russia, and North Korea, reimagined in popular media,public memorials, and patriotic education campaigns. This is not history as it was, but as the current rulers need it to be. Since coming to power in China, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of the war with Japan, Vladimir Putin has brought back bombastic military parades through Red Square,and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while historians who try to challenge the official line are silenced and jailed. But this didn't start with the current leaders and it won't end with them.Drawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting, Dancing on Bones is the story of how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule. If we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we mustunderstand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past.

The Cold War in the Classroom
The Cold War in the Classroom

Author: Barbara Christophe

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 3030119998

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point to ambivalence, vagueness and contradictions in textbook narratives understood to be echoes of societal and academic controversies. Others focus on teachers and the history classroom, showing how unresolved political issues create tensions in history education. They render visible how teachers struggle to handle these challenges by pretending that what they do is ‘just history’. The contributions to this book unveil how teachers, backgrounding the political inherent in all memory practices, often nourish the illusion that the history in which they are engaged is all about addressing the past with a reflexive and disciplined approach.